Katrina Honeyman

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Katrina Honeyman (born June 18, 1950 in London - † October 23, 2011 in Leeds ) was a British economic historian who specialized in the role of women and children during the Industrial Revolution .

life and career

Honeyman was the middle of five children born to the married couple John and Eleanor Honeyman. After spending the first few years of life in London, the family moved to Manchester . She studied economic history and sociology at the University of York before doing a PhD at the University of Nottingham . In her doctoral thesis, supervised by Stanley Chapman , she examined the social origins of early large industrialists from three different economic sectors.

After temporary employment at the Universities of Manchester and Aberdeen , Honeyman joined the University of Leeds School of Economics in 1979 . In 1999 she moved to the historical faculty and in 2008 was given the chair for economic and social history.

Her studies focused primarily on the work of women and children during the Industrial Revolution. She succeeded in showing that the role of women in everyday working life in the 19th century was by no means as marginal as previously assumed, but that women were increasingly restricted by legal restrictions in the Victorian era . Another investigation related to textile production in Leeds and the question of why it could no longer keep up with European competition after the Second World War . In this context, she worked closely with the Marks & Spencer company.

In her last years she devoted herself to child labor during industrialization. According to Honeyman, their everyday life was not as bleak as generally assumed. In this way, the children affected were able to develop valuable skills through their work that would be useful in their later life.

In addition to her work in Leeds, Honeyman was also active in her research area on a larger scale. She has served twice on the Council of the Economic History Society , served as President of the Association of Business Historians for one year, and was the editor of Textile History . For her contributions to her academic discipline, she was accepted into the Academy of Social Sciences in 2005.

A big Arsenal fan, Honeyman contracted esophageal cancer in 2010 and succumbed to the disease the following year. She left behind her significant other and two children from a previous marriage.

Fonts

  • Origins of enterprise: business leadership in the industrial revolution. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1982, ISBN 0-71900-873-5 .
  • Technology and enterprise: Isaac Holden and the mechanization of woolcombing in France, 1848-1914. with Jordan Goodman , Scolar, Aldershot 1986, ISBN 0-85967-727-3 .
  • Gainful pursuits: the making of industrial Europe 1600-1914. with Jordan Goodman, Edward Arnold, London 1988, ISBN 0-71316-545-6 .
  • Well suited: a history of the Leeds clothing industry, 1850-1990. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000, ISBN 0-19920-237-0 .
  • Women, gender and industrialization in England, 1700-1870. Macmillan, Basingstoke 2000, ISBN 0-33369-077-X .
  • Child workers in England, 1780-1820: parish apprentices and the making of the early industrial labor force. Ashgate, Aldershot 2007, ISBN 0-75466-272-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary on telegraph.co.uk accessed on July 27, 2015
  2. ↑ Reminder of Honeyman on justgiving.com accessed on July 27, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Obituary on theguardian.com accessed on July 27, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c Obituary on tandfonline.com, accessed on July 27, 2015
  5. ↑ Obituary on timeshighereducation.co.uk, accessed on July 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Honeyman, Katrina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economic historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2011
Place of death Leeds