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Between the fields and the city : women, work, and family in Russia, 1861-1914

Professor Engel charts the personal dimensions of economic social change by examining the migration of Russian peasant women's from the village to the city in the years between 1861 and the outbreak of World War I.
Print Book, English, 1995
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1995
History
xi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780521442367, 9780521566216, 0521442362, 0521566215
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List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Patriarchy and its discontents; 2. The woman's side; 3. Out to work; 4. Between the fields and the factory; 5. On their own in the city; 6. Women in the margins/marginalising women; 7. Making a home in the city; Conclusion; A note on sources; Index.