Ingenious Trade: Women And Work In Seventeenth-Century London

Set in rapidly changing late 17th-century London, Ingenious Trade reveals a generation of young women taking up apprenticeships and making their way in trade. Drawing on engagingly detailed court cases, it recovers their ambitions, conflicts, networks and careers, showing the significance of women's work to their identities, and to the city.

• | By (Author): Laura (King'S College London) Gowing
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 16, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 284 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 110848638X
• | ISBN-13: 9781108486385