Smith , The Other Nation-The Poor in the English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s , ( Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1980 ) p. 25 .
48 As discussed by Dunbar , p. 156 .
49 Ibid. ,p.50
50 Checkland , p. 248 .
51 Margaret Hewitt , Wives and Mothers in Victorian Industry , ( Rockliff , London , 1958 ) p. 24. Moreover, when they find themselves dependent on their family for their living due to a period of unemployment, they realize that they have lost their status and position in the family along with their self-respect. Consequently, the result will be the dissolution of the integrity of the family in general . While the Industrial Revolution was providing more work for working class women both inside and outside the home, it was taking it away from those women who were better off. The fact was that just as domestic industry was a partnership in which the wife assisted the husband, so too, most businesses, professions and trades in the old society were partnerships in which the husband and wife worked as a