... 'tend to deprive them of opportunities for sharing in the more profitable forms of production, confining them as wage earners to the unprotected trades.'2 She looks back to a supposed "golden age" of the pre industrial period. She studied the transition from feudal to modern society, focusing upon economic equality between men and women in this period. She found that the nature of economic relations in the period of domestic production were moer equal than any other time in history. Her work also includes a criticism of the inequality in the perception of the work carried out by women as being inferior. Clark's argument has been heavily criticised for its generalisation. Marry Wiesner "Generalisation... which lump all women together are dangerous"3 Britian has industrially diverse regions that were affected differently by industrialisation therefore women's experiences in this period will differ. Dorothy Georye's study of London is the point in case. She ...

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