This collection presents 15 essays detailing the employment of women during a crucial period in English history. Including both a general discussion and detailed case studies, and incorporating important new research, this guide to women's involvement in Industrial Age agriculture, centralized and cottage industry, domestic service, business, and alternative medicine also addresses the impact of marital status as well as some key methodological debates.

Nigel Goose is professor of social and economic history and director of the Centre for Regional and Local History at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of Volumes 1 and 2 of Population, Economy and Family Structure in Hertfordshire in 1851 and Tudor and Stuart Colchester.