dc.contributor.author
Kaube, Hendrikje
dc.date.accessioned
2024-06-06T12:04:01Z
dc.date.available
2024-06-06T12:04:01Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/43782
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-43497
dc.description.abstract
While it was common for Victorian working-class women to be employed outside of the home, a paid occupation spelled the end of gentility for their bourgeois counterparts. Yet many of these ladies found respectable alternatives to make a living. For our research of the nineteenth century, we rely to a great extent on numbers – census data, population statistics, percentages. However, few contemporary employment records give an accurate or reliable account of the respective household constellation, particularly with regard to women. Looking at these numbers, we have to bear in mind that we are also looking at numbers accrued with certain assumptions about the role of women in society. Unlike the New Woman of the fin de siècle, who is a typist or clerk, some held positions which fell outside of the common labor categories. From Charles Dickens to Neo-Edwardian literature, these ‘odd women’ appear as caretakers, companions, and assistants performing various duties. Broadening the scope of investigation into women and work in England during the long nineteenth century beyond considerations of manual and educational employment into the realm of emotional labor, we can obtain more information on the restrictions of contemporary ideology and the power dynamics of affective care.
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dc.format.extent
26 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Middle-Class Women
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dc.subject
Victorian Fiction
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dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie::301 Soziologie, Anthropologie
dc.title
Compassion as Commodity
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dc.title.subtitle
Middle-Class Women and Care Work in the Long Nineteenth Century
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.5195/jwsr.2024.1234
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Journal of World-Systems Research
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
78
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
103
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
30
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2024.1234
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1076-156X
refubium.resourceType.provider
WoS-Alert