'Pleasurable homes'? victorian model miners' wives and the family wage in a south yorkshire colliery district [1]

Women's History Review

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 317-336

  Walker, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0005441347     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612029700200147     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. For example, see R. Church (1986) The History of the British Coal Industry, vol. three (Oxford: Clarendon);
2. and for a number of regional case studies, consult J. Benson & R. Neville (Eds) (1976) Studies in the Yorkshire Coal Industry, (Manchester: Manchester University Press);
3. R. Colls (1987) Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield: work, culture and protest, 1790-1850 (Manchester: Manchester University Press);
4. R. Harrison (Ed.) (1978) Independent Collier (Hassocks: Harvester Press);
5. and A. Taylor (1961) Labour productivity and technological innovation in the British coal industry, 1850-1914, Economic History Review, 14, pp. 48-70.
6. For an examination of women's work in the mining industry in the second half of the nineteenth century, see A. John (1980) By the Sweat of their Brow (London: Croom Helm).
7. The work of Edward Higgs is particularly illuminating. See, for example, E. Higgs (1995) Occupational censuses and the agricultural workforce in Victorian England and Wales, Economic History Review, XLVIII, 4, pp. 700-716;
8. E. Higgs (1987) Women, occupations and work in the nineteenth century censuses, History Workshop Journal, 23, pp. 59-80;
9. and S. Horrell & J. Humphries (1995) Women's labour force participation and the transition to the male-breadwinner family, 1790-1865, Economic History Review, XLVIII, 1, pp. 89-117.
10. See, for example, J. Humphries (1981) Protective legislation, the capitalist state and working class men: the case of the Mines Regulation Act, Feminist Review, 7, pp. 1-33;
11. and also J. Mark-Lawson & A. Witz (1988) From 'family labour' to 'family wage'? The case of women's labour in nineteenth-century coalmining, Social History, 13, pp. 152-173.
12. For a more general discussion of the transition to a male-breadwinner norm, see W. Seccombe (1986) Patriarchy stabilized: the construction of the male breadwinner wage norm in nineteenth-century Britain, Social History, 11, pp. 53-76;
13. and Horrell & Humphries, 'Women's labour force participation', pp. 89-117
14. Barnsley Times, (Henceforward, B.T.), 28 March 1857.
15. J.Wilkinson (n.d.) Notes and cuttings, p. 10 (Barnsley: Barnsley Local Studies Library).
16. Colls, Pitmen of the Northern Coalfield, p. 135.
17. 'Roving Correspondent', in Manchester Guardian, quoted in B.C., 17 May 1873.
18. Figures derived from following census enumerators' books: 1861,Darfield e.ds,l, 4 & 5 1871, Darfield e.ds, 1, 4 & 5. 1881, Darfield e.ds, 1, 2, 5 & part of 6,(Wombwell Main only). The sample sizes were as follows: 1861-190 mining households; 165 non-mining households 1871 - 311 mining households; 220 non-mining households 1881 - 456 mining households; 229 non-mining households For comparisons with other regions, see MHaines (1977) Fertility, Nuptiality and Occupation: a study of coal mining populations and regions in England and Wales in the mid-nineteenth century, Journal of Inter-disciplinary History, 2, p.257.
19. The Dearne Valley water scheme commenced in 1884, supplying 40,000 people with water, according to J.Kell (1895-96) Obituary of Joseph Mitchell, Transactions of the Institute of Mining Engineers, X In B.C., 5 March 1887, a report by Dr Sadler, Medical Officer of Health, was referred to in which Sadler implied that less than half of the homes in Darfield were supplied with Dearne Valley water. A local land-owner, Bushey, claimed that 350 of "not much more than 500" houses in the locality were thus supplied. Later complaints regarding the water supply at Darfield, Low Valley and Snape Hill were made at a meeting at which the inhabitants of Darfield unsuccessfully applied for urban council status, according to a report in the Mexborough and Swinton Times, 7 June 1895.
20. Chief Medical Officer's Report, 1878, in 'The annual report of the local government board', P.P., 1878-79, [c2452], XXIX, p. 137.
21. Chief Medical Officer's Report, 1878, in 'The annual report of the local government board', P.P., 1878-79, [c.2452], XXIX, p. 145.
22. J. Knowles (1886) The Diary of Joseph Knowles, p. 62 (Barnsley: Barnsley Local Studies Library).
23. S. Weinberg (1989) The Shadow of the Mills, p. 212 (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press);
24. Mark-Lawson & Witz, 'From "family labour'", p. 170.
25. Church, A History of the British Coal Industry, vol. 3, p. 632.
26. Wombwell Parish Registers, 10 October 1864-25 December 1888.
27. Darfield Parish Registers, 1850-85, 25%sample. Fifty-seven of 486 brides were recorded as having occupations.
28. Darfield Parish Registers, 1874-80.
29. C. Kelly (1991) History and post-modernism, Past and Present, 133, p. 212.
30. See especially Higgs, 'Women's occupations and work', pp. 59-80;
31. E. Roberts (1988) Women's Work, 1840-1940, pp. 18-19 (London: Macmillan);
32. E. Higgs (1989) Making Sense of the Census, p. 81 (London: HMSO).
33. For a consideration of the underenumeration of women's agricultural work in the nineteenth-century censuses, see Higgs, 'Occupational censuses and the agricultural workforce', pp. 700-716
34. L. Davidoff (1979) The separation of home and work?, in S. Burman (Ed.) Fit Work for Women, p. 69 (London: Croom Helm).