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In her classic work, Women workers and the industrial revolution, 1750-1850, based upon her Doctor of Philosophy thesis, she argued that in the long run, the Industrial Revolution increased women"s employment opportunities, was beneficial to women"s social and economic position and therefore was a liberating factor.This was in contrast to the earlier view of Alice Clark who believed that industrial capitalism was responsible for the exclusion of women from paid employment, and thus played a crucial role in modern women's oppression.