Shopgirls: True Stories of Friendship, Hardship and Triumph From Behind the Counter
by Dr. Pamela Cox, Annabel Hobley
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Shopgirls should be heroines, as celebrated as steelworkers in the Industrial Revolution. A million of us were shop assistants by the turn of the twentieth century and since then retail has grown exponentially to become Britain's largest area of economic activity. But the young women at the heart of this economic and cultural revolution, the shop assistants themselves, have largely been ignored. 'Shopgirls' will tell the story of the lives of the girls who have worked behind the counters of show more our nation's shops from the drapery stores of the 1860s when young women's employment outside the home was taking off, through the Edwardian era's tumultuous social upheavals, two world wars and all the way to the working class revolution of the 1960s and the shock of the Biba bombing. This lively and ambitious book sets out to uncover the shopgirls' life stories, work cultures and economic contributions in a way never done before. show lessTags
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Pamela Cox (BA PhD Cambridge) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. She specialises in the history of criminal justice, public policy and gender relations. Her other books include Criminology: A Sociological Introduction (co-authored with Essex colleagues) and Becoming Delinquent: European Youth, 1650-1950 show more (co-edited with Heather Shore). Pamela Cox also presents the BBC documentary series, 'Servants: The True Story of Life Below Stairs', on the history of domestic service-the occupation for which the majority of 'bad girls' were trained up until the 1940s. show less
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- Original publication date
- 2014
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Economics, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 331.481381109 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Labor economics Women workers
- LCC
- HD6070.2 .G7 .C69 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Labor. Work. Working class Classes of labor
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
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