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Double lives : a history of working motherhood in modern Britain /

A groundbreaking history of mothers who worked for pay that will change the way we think about gender, work and equality in modern Britain. In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago...

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Main Author:	McCarthy, Helen (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Subjects:	Working mothers > Great Britain. Working mothers > Great Britain > History.

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