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Gender, rhetoric and regulation : Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55 /

Helen Glew investigates women's employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the 20th century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women's movement.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Glew, Helen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Work for women? Challenges to the gendering of routine work in the LCC and the Civil Service
  • Trying to get equal opportunities : women in the higher grades of the LCC and the Civil Service in the first half o the twentieth century
  • 'Endless arguments about sex and salaries' : the First World War, reconstruction and the campaigns for equal pay, 1914-24
  • 'As a matter of justice' : the equal pay campaigns from 1924-1939
  • The slow road to victory : the equal pay campaigns from 1939-1954
  • Lark rise to spinsterhood? Women, the public service and marriage bar policy, 1900-46
  • Disabled husbands, deserted wives, working widows : the marriage bar in public servants' private lives until 1946.