Ivy Pinchbeck
Ivy Pinchbeck, (9 April 1898 – 10 May 1982), Studied at University of Nottingham BA, 1920; London School of Economics MA,1927 and PhD,1930 was a British economic and social historian, specialising in the history of women. She taught in the Department of Sociology, Social Studies and Economics at Bedford College, University of London from 1929 to 1961.[1]
In her classic work, Women workers and the industrial revolution, 1750-1850, based upon her PhD thesis, she argued that in the long run, the Industrial Revolution increased women's employment opportunities, was beneficial to women's social and economic position and therefore was a liberating factor.This was in contrast to the earlier view of Alice Clark who believed that industrial capitalism was responsible for the exclusion of women from paid employment, and thus played a crucial role in modern women’s oppression.
Pinchbeck's two-volume Children in English Society, co-authored with the help of Margaret Hewitt, a former student, described the conditions of poor and orphaned children, from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and discussed how legislative and voluntary responses to them had changed over the period.
References
- ↑ K. Boyd, Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, Volume 1 (1999), pp.921-2; K. Honeyman, ‘Pinchbeck, Ivy (1898–1982) in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol 15 (Oxford, 2004), p.1194
Bibliography
- I. Pinchbeck, Women workers and the industrial revolution, 1750-1850 (1930)
- I. Pinchbeck, ‘Social Attitudes to the Problem of Illegitimacy’ in British Journal of Sociology, 5 (Dec,1954), pp. 309–323
- I. Pinchbeck, ‘State and the Child in Sixteenth-Century England’ in British Journal of Sociology, 7 (Dec,56), pp. 273–285 and 8 (Mar,57), pp. 59–74
- I. Pinchbeck with M. Hewitt, Children in English Society. 2 vols ( 1969)