Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London.

Laura Gowing's book, "Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London," challenges the common understanding of premodern women's labor as flexible, informal, and invisible. Gowing focuses on girl apprentices and the women who trained them, arguing that the growing number of female appr...

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Published in:	Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 167 - 171
Main Author:	French, Katherine L.
Format:	Book Review
Published:	University of Chicago Press Fall2024
Subjects:	Feminine identity Middle-aged women Businesswomen Orphans Married women Red tape Online social networks
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost