Bøker av Janet Greenlees

Examines the working environments of the heartlands of the British and American cotton textile industries from the nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. Janet Greenlees contends that the air quality within these pioneering workplaces was a key contributor to the health of the wider communities of which they were a part.

Analyses how women workers influenced patterns of industrial organization and offers a fresh perspective on relationships between gender and work and on industrial development. Drawing upon examples of women's subversive activities and attitudes toward the discourses of labour, this book emphasizes the variety of women's work experiences.