caa a22 4500 38631313X CHVBK 20180307111555.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S001041750001536X doi S001041750001536X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S001041750001536X Thomas Janet University of Keele Women and Capitalism: Oppression or Emancipation? A Review Article [Elektronische Daten] [Janet Thomas] In the last few years, work in social history and the history of women has centred on the transition to capitalism and the great bourgeois political revolutions—also variously described as industrialization, urbanisation, and modernisation. Throughout this work runs a steady debate about the improvement or deterioration brought about by these changes in the lives of women and working people. On the whole, sociologists of the 1960s and early 1970s and many recent historians have been optimistic about the changes in women's position, while feminist and Marxist scholars have taken a much more gloomy view.1 There has been little debate between the two sides, yet the same opposed arguments about the impact of capitalism on the status of women crop up not only in accounts of Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, but also in work on women in the Third World, and cry out for critical assessment. Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988 Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/3(1988-07), 534-549 0010-4175 30:3<534 1988 30 CSS https://doi.org/10.1017/S001041750001536X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S001041750001536X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Thomas Janet University of Keele NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/3(1988-07), 534-549 0010-4175 30:3<534 1988 30 CSS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge