Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London
Both female apprenticeships and freedom admissions declined at the end of the century, reflecting changes in the structure and geography of the dress trade, but women continued to appear in company apprenticeship and freedom records during the subsequent decades, and their presence increased in the...
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| Published in | Seventeenth-century news Vol. 80; no. 3/4; pp. 135 - 138 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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College Station
Seventeenth-Century News
01.10.2022
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| Summary: | Both female apprenticeships and freedom admissions declined at the end of the century, reflecting changes in the structure and geography of the dress trade, but women continued to appear in company apprenticeship and freedom records during the subsequent decades, and their presence increased in the middle years of the eighteenth century. Gowing's detailed description of women as independent economic agents drawn from court records pushes well beyond what had been previously appreciated by scholars: "In the ambitions and competences of mistresses and their apprentices, late seventeenth-century London's economic and legal landscape made it a hub of women's enterprise" (105). [...]perhaps best of all, she writes in a style that makes her book readily accessible to students and those generally interested in early modern daily life. |
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