In my thesis, I deal with the changing role of women in mining families during the period of industrialization. In particular, I focus on the Emscher zone in the Ruhr area, Germany. The years 1850 to 1910 represent a temporal limitation. Now I am looking for scientific literature and sources that can support me in my work. I have therefore divided the topic into the following subsections:
- Housework and child rearing
- economic pressure
- Changes through industrialization
- socio-political consequences
If you have any recommendations or tips, I would be very grateful. Please get in touch with me!
unfamiliar with the Situation in Germany but in Britain, industrialisation increasingly saw women brought into work within a factory situation and the opportunities to work from home diminishing. This made it less likely for them to be able to breast feed their children for any length of time thus increasing their fertility and witnessing increasing numbers of births. Family sizes grew, especially as infant mortality rates slowly reduced, and large families became a familiar trait of industrialisation. For women this brought increasing health, economic and domestic pressures. Sorry I am unfamiliar with Germany industrialisation but suspect the UK experience may also be repeated there
Leonie Puschnig Is birthrate connected to female workplace inclusion involved?
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