Women Workers and the Trade Unions /

Updated with new chapters on 1987-1997 and 1997-2010 In this highly-praised book, Sarah Boston recounts the story of women workers from the early nineteenth century to the present day: the struggles and strikes, successes and failures in their strenuous efforts to organise and win recognition from e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boston, Sarah, 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Edition:Updated edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women labor union members > Great Britain > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / by Frances O'Grady
  • Introduction
  • 'Their proper sphere at home' 1874
  • '...and Women' 1874-1906
  • 'The wage that never rises' 1906-1914
  • 'Don't blackleg your man in Flanders' 1914-1918
  • 'Women must go' 1918-1923
  • 'Asking for bread and getting a stone' 1923-1939
  • 'Woman power' 1939-1945
  • 'Liberty on your lips' 1945-1950
  • 'Be true to us on budget day' 1950-1960
  • 'Little indication of progress' 1960-1968
  • 'You'll have to do it yourselves' 1968-1975
  • 'Charters are no Aladdin's lamp' 1976-1986
  • 'Become feminine or we will become fringe' 1987-1997
  • 'Our daughters and our granddaughters' 1997-2010.

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