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Examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Janet Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.

The cotton industry was the first large-scale factory system to emerge during the industrial revolution, and as such there were no set business practices for employers or employees to follow in the organisation of the shop floor. In this book, Janet Greenlees argues that this situation provided workers in both Britain and the United States with a unique opportunity to influence decisions about work patterns and conditions of labour, and to set...

Analyses how women workers influenced patterns of industrial organization and offers a fresh perspective on relationships between gender and work and on industrial development. Drawing upon examples of women's subversive activities and attitudes toward the discourses of labour, this book emphasizes the variety of women's work experiences.

The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.

The contributors to this collection look into the experiences of women in the Western world going through pregnancy and birth over the last hundred years.