renewing the debate (or starting it?)
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Davis, Mary > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 5 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, arbeidsmarkt, vakbonden, politiek, sociale klasse, gender, Verenigd Koninkrijk, bundel, essay
- Description
- Politics constructs gender and gender constructs politics: this is a central theme in this collection of essays which seek not only to write a history that focus on women's experiences but seeks also to analyse those dynamic forces that have shaped that history. It examines the 'making' of the other half of the working class-women - as workers, trade unionists and political activists, and seeks to weave together intricate relationship between class and gender, particular within the process of industrialization. It features contributions from leading and up-and-coming women labour historians, essays are in three sections: I. the labour market/work (typical and atypical): II trade unions: and III politics. Contents: Section 1, Introduction and theoretical framework: Mary Davis, Introduction: Mary Davis, The making of the English working class re-visited: labour history and Marxist theory. Section 2, women & work: Sian Moore, Gender & class consciousness in industrialisation - the Bradford Woollen Industry: Katrina Honeyman, Sweat and sweating - Women workers and trade unions in the Leeds Clothing Trade 1880-1980: Sheila Blackburn, 'The inspector can check a workroom is insanitary by means of his own eyes and nose'- Re-thinking the sweatshop in Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Linda Clarke & Christine Wall, Skilled versus qualified labour: Skilled versus qualified labour - the exclusion of women from the construction industry: Caroline Bressey, Black women and work in England 1880 - 1920: Louise Raw, Striking a light - Bryant & May revisited: Catherine Hunt, The fragility of the union - the work of the National Federation of Women Workers in the Regions of Britain 1906-1914: Section 3, Women and politics: Sheila Rowbotham, Alice Wheeldon revisited: Annemarie Hughes, Socialist women in the inter-war years.