Precarious Professionals Gender, Identities and Social Change in Modern Britain
Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. The book challenges conventional categories in the history of work, exploring instead the everyday labour of maintaining a professional identi...
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University of London Press
2021
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