Article Title: On the Proposed Interference with Domestic Handicrafts
Journal Title: Nineteenth Century, The: a monthly review
Date Run: 1877-1900 indexed
Publication Place: London
Publication Frequency: Monthly; quarterly (1887)
Periodical Location: University of Alberta Library
Creator/Author: Seebohm, Frederic
Birth/Death Date: 1833-1912
Date of Publication: February 1878
Description: A political responce to factories and workshops bill of 1877.
Protection of women, children from poor employment standards, wages and conditions
Cottage fireside not a workshop, "to say it is undermines the privacy of meagre cottages in relation to the homes of the rich"
Basically saying that to outlaw work in the home, where poorer families have no choice but to use as both domicile and workshop, is discriminatory to the poor and advantages the rich.
Publication Information: v.3 1878 p.370
Subject Heading (LCSH): Great Britain. Parliament Reform. (LCSH)
Domestic relations (LCSH)
Children (LCSH)
Women Employment (LCSH)
Factory Acts (LCSH)
Factory laws and legislation (LCSH)
Language: English
Topical Keyword: Domesticity
Class
Waged work
Separate Spheres
Editor: James Knowles
Publisher: C. Kegan Paul and Co.
Temporal Coverage: 1870s
Article type: Journal article

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