英国工业化进程中劳动按性别分工的形式及其社会意义

The Formation and Social Significance of the Labor Distribution by Gender During the English Industrialization

英国工业化的进程不仅是一场经济变革,也是一场文化重构和社会性别化的过程,劳动的社会性别分工成为文化重构的中心问题。劳动按性别分工的形式的演变不仅承袭了社会性别化的历史传统,也受到工业化的多样性特征、劳动的重新分工、阶级意识和阶级斗争等因素的进一步影响。从社会性别的视角认知工业化进程有助于我们深化理解妇女的社会地位和贡献,理解工业革命的丰富内涵。

The English Industrial Revolution is an economic reform as well as a cultural reconstruction process and that of labor division by gender. The division of function in gender in this society becomes the central issue of cultural reconstruction. With the inheritance of some historical tradition, the evolving forms of the division also feels further impact from such factors as diversity of industrialization, redistribution of labor, class consciousness and class struggles. The study of the process of industrialization out of the angle of gender in society will help us more profoundly understand women＇s social status, their contribution, and even further connotation of Industrial Revolution.