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Ivy Pinchbeck (the 9th of April 1898 - the 10th of May 1982) was a British economic and social historian who specialised in the history of women. She is best known for her 1930 book Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850, which was a pioneering work in women's history and remained highly influential for the next half-century.
Pinchbeck argued that in the long run, the Industrial Revolution increased women's employment opportunities and was a liberating factor for their social and economic position. She contrasted this with the dangers and harsh conditions of the pre-industrial era.
Alice Clark believed industrial capitalism was responsible for excluding women from paid employment and played a crucial role in modern women's oppression. Pinchbeck reached the opposite conclusion, arguing that women overall gained more than they lost from the Industrial Revolution.
Pinchbeck studied at the University of Nottingham, graduating with a B.A. in 1920, and at the London School of Economics, where she earned an M.A. in 1927 and a Ph.D. in 1930. She taught in the Department of Sociology, Social Studies and Economics at Bedford College, University of London from 1929 to 1961.
Children in English Society is a two-volume work co-authored by Pinchbeck and her former student Margaret Hewitt. It described the conditions of poor and orphaned children from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and examined how legislative and voluntary responses to those conditions changed over that period.
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850 was published in 1930. It was based on Pinchbeck's doctoral thesis from the London School of Economics and became a pioneering and highly influential work in women's history.