Women's Work in Industrial Revolutions : Primary Source Lessons from Europe and East Asia

Women's Work in Industrial Revolutions provides easy to use primary sources lessons which examine women's crucial contribution to the process of industrialization. It is global in scope, presenting the latest scholarship on historic views from Europe, Japan, and China with links to aspects of women's work in today's industrializing nations. The lessons are presented in six thematic sections.Each thematic section is designed to stand alone, providing students with background information, focus questions, primary source documents, and ways to examine the materials. The unit also contains a teacher background essay, teaching outcomes, correlations to National History Standards and AP World History topics, a glossary, a bibliography, and relevant Internet web sites.Reese, Lyn is the author of 'Women's Work in Industrial Revolutions : Primary Source Lessons from Europe and East Asia', published 2005 under ISBN 9781890380090 and ISBN 1890380091.