Suggested preparatory reading:
M. Bennett, ‘Misogyny, popular culture and women’s work’, History Workshop, 31 (1991); M. Hailwood, ‘Sociability, work and labouring identity in seventeenth-century England’, Cultural and Social History, 8, 1 (2011), 9-29; K. Thomas, ‘Work and leisure in pre-industrial society’, Past and Present, 29 (1964).