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Woman and Labour

by Olive Schreiner

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First published
1911
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Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025), Elroi, Matea Bracic and others · 6 h 43 min · 13 parts

  1. Dedication and Introduction

    31:36

  2. Chapter 1 Parasitism Part 1

    29:17

  3. Chapter 1 Parasitism Part 2

    26:43

  4. Chapter 2 Parasitism continued Part 1

    33:28

  5. Chapter 2 Parasitism continued Part 2

    29:43

  6. Chapter 3 Parasitism continued Part 1

    25:59

  7. Chapter 3 Parasitism continued Part 2

    31:56

  8. Chapter 4 Woman and War

    37:20

  9. Chapter 5 Sex Differences

    23:05

  10. Chapter 6 Certain Objections Part 1

    39:21

  11. Chapter 6 Certain Objections Part 2

    45:02

  12. Chapter 6 Certain Objections Part 3

    24:51

  13. Chapter 6 Certain Objections Part 4

    25:00

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Olive Schreiner had written a much longer book on women's work, and British troops burned the manuscript with her house during the Boer War. What she reconstructed in 1911 became the argument suffragists carried around like scripture. Her case is economic. Machines and servants had stripped middle-class women of the spinning, brewing, and tending that once made them producers, leaving them ornamental and dependent. Her answer was blunt: give us all labour, every field of work, and let us take our share of it. Written with the force of a woman who had spent years as a governess in the Karoo, it argues rather than pleads.

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Olive Schreiner

Schreiner published The Story of an African Farm in 1883 under the name Ralph Iron, having written it while working as a governess on Karoo farms, and it did something no English novel had done, which was to put the South African veld and a woman refusing marriage in the same book.

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Book facts

First published
1911
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
140
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025), Elroi, Matea Bracic and others