ISOC253 — Gender,work,family 19c.Ireland
This module looks at various aspects of Irish economic, social and public life in this crucial period of change. Beginning with an overview of the major economic and social changes and continuities, the module will move on to look at work in the towns and cities, work in rural/ agricultural settings; a natural progression from this will be to look at the labour movement and the land movement, up to 1922. Migration and emigration and their impact on Irish society, will be accorded due attention, and this will lead to a discussion of changes in family and household structure in the post-Famine period. Gender will, of module, come into all of this, but the remaining part of the module will be devoted to men's and women's gender-differentiated experiences of activism, and public life in general.