Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):195-197; doi:10.1093/es/khj021
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.
Anne Clendinning. Demons of Domesticity: Women and the English Gas Industry, 18891939. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xvii + 352 pp. ISBN 0-7546-0692-9, $109.95 (cloth).
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This book examines the role of women, both as employees and as consumers, in the English gas industry in the fifty years between the 1880s and the eve of the Second World War. By the late nineteenth century, the gas industry was well established throughout England, using coal as its main raw material and with the provision of lighting as its main market. The historical literature on the
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