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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Alexander, Sally
- Publish Year
- 1994
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1A 1994 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, sociale bewegingen, vakbonden, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
1850-1900
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Levine, Philippa
- Publish Year
- 1987
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1D 1987 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, politiek, arbeid, demografie, Victoriaanse tijd, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1850-1899, 19e eeuw, 1900-1909, 20e eeuw
precarious labor and the fight for global standards, 1919-2019
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Boris, Eileen
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- WER 52 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- vakbonden, arbeidsverdeling naar sekse, inkomen, zorg, Verenigd Koninkrijk, West-Europa, Zuid-Europa, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This publication analyses three ways in which the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has classified the division of labor: between women and men from 1919 to 1958: between women in the global south and the west from 1955 to 1996: and between the earning and care needs of all workers from 1990s to today.
a century of disability benefits
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gulland, Jackie
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 5 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- gehandicapten, sociale zekerheid, arbeidsmarkt, huishoudelijke arbeid, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Based on previously unknown archive materials this publication explores the meaning of the term ‘incapable of work’ over a hundred years (1911–present). Amongst many subject areas, the author explores women’s roles in the domestic sphere and how these were used to consider their capacity for work in the labour market.
Britain's forgotten army
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Foat, Joanna
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 5 2019 - B
- Description
- During the two world wars, it is well known that women all over the country entered factories, armed services and farms, filling gaps left by the exodus of men. In forestry, they also formed the Women's Timber Corps. Timber was a vital resource, imported into the UK in vast quantities, but wartime meant the country had to be self-sufficient .
gender, migration and employment in Britain
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McDowell, Linda
- Publish Year
- 2013
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 52 2013 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, migratie, huishoudelijke en zorgberoepen, artsen, verpleegkundigen, technische beroepen, beroepen in bank- en verzekeringswezen, agrarische beroepen, werknemers, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1900-1949, 1950-1999, 2000-2009, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in the lives of immigrant working women in post-war Britain.The author looks at female textile workers, hospital domestics, nurses, automotive workers, photoprint packers, bankers, doctors, cleaners, nannies and agricultural workers.
local voices from Pontefract, Castleford, Normanton, Knottingley and Featherstone 1930 - 1945
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Adam, Rachel > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 1987
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 1L 1987 - C
- Thesaurus
- armoede, arbeid, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw
the work of the society for promoting the training of women 1859-2009
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Bridger, Anne
- Creator
- Jordan, Ellen
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 5 2009
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, beroepen, burgerlijke vrouwenbewegingen, historisch, vrouwenorganisaties, Victoriaanse tijd, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- The Society for Promoting the Training of women (SPEW) has worked to broaden women’s occupational possibilities in the United Kingdom. The history of women’s access to occupations of clerical work, printing, hairdressing, hospitals, plan-tracing and artistic trades in the 19th century is outlined. Later the society has concentrated on providing employment advice and study loans. These activities, the people active in the society in the course of its history and the future of the SPEW are presented.
a hundred years ago
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Adams, Carol
- Publish Year
- 1982
- Shelfmark
- B4424 - B
- Thesaurus
- dagelijks leven, opvoeding, onderwijs, arbeid, huwelijken, gezinnen, huishoudelijke arbeid, gezondheid, historisch, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw
- Description
- This book surveys a century of changes in our everyday lives. Using primary source material, the author looks at people's experiences of growing up, getting an education, earning a living , getting married, having a family, running a home, keeping healthy, and enjoying themselves - then and now.
women's work in the civil service and the London county council, 1900–55
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Glew, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 53 2020
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, overheidspersoneel, gelijke beloning, gelijke behandeling, discriminatie, man vrouw verschillen, acties, huwelijken, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 20e eeuw, 1900-1949, 1950-1959, statistiek
- Description
- This study of women’s public service employment, from 1900 till 1955, examines three aspects of women’s working lives – inequality of pay, the marriage bar and inequality of opportunity. The research is based on a range of archival sources – including policy documents, trade union records, women’s movement campaign literature and employees’ personal testimony.
Britain 1850-1945 : an introduction
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Purvis, June > [ed.]
- Contributor
- Summerfield, Penny
- Publish Year
- 2000
- Shelfmark
- B2094 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwengeschiedenis, suffragettes, etnische groepen, etniciteit, oorlog en vrede, literatuur, gezondheid, gezinnen, onderwijs, seksualiteit, arbeid, politiek, Verenigd Koninkrijk, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, onderzoek
- Description
- Inleiding tot de vrouwengeschiedenis van 1850-1945 in Groot Brittannië. Onderzoek naar suffragettes, raciale verhoudingen, industrialisatie en de invloed van oorlog op vrouwenliteratuur. Ingegaan wordt op gezondheid, gezin, onderwijs, seksualiteit, arbeid en politiek.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Frader, Laura L. > (ed.)
- Creator
- Rose, Sonya O. > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Weitz, Eric D.
- Publish Year
- 1996
- Shelfmark
- WER 1L 1996 - B
- Thesaurus
- arbeid, lagere klasse, arbeidsverdeling naar sekse, arbeidsters, huisindustrie, inkomen, vakbonden, communisme, sociaal economische geschiedenis, textielindustrie, industrialisatie, arbeidsrecht, mensenrechten, economische stelsels, Frankrijk, Verenigd Koninkrijk, Ierland, Duitsland, Rusland, Italië, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- De bijdragen in deze bundel behandelen de wisselwerking tussen gender en de veranderingen die zich in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Ierland, Frankrijk, Duitsland, Rusland en Italië hebben afgespeeld op het gebied van de industrialisatie, maatschappelijke verhoudingen en politiek in de 19e en 20e eeuw. Het boek is verdeeld in vier delen: Rethinking proletarianization: Public and private in working-class history, gender: class and the state: Gender, politics, and citizenship. De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: Gender and uneven working-class formation in the Irish linen industry / door Jane Gray: What price a weaver's dignity? gender inequality and the survival of home-based production in industrial France / door Tessie P. Liu: The gendering of skill as historical process: the case of French knitters in industrial Troyes, 1880-1939 / door Helen Harden Chenut: Consumption, production, and gender: the sewing machine in nineteenth-century France / door Judith G. Coffin: Engendering work and wages: the French labor movement and the family wage / door Laura L. Frader: Women 'of a very low type': crossing racial boundaries in Imperial Britain / door Laura Tabili: Protective labor legislation in nineteenth-century Britain: gender, class, and the liberal state / door Sonya O. Rose: Social policy, body politics: recasting the social question in Germany, 1875-1900 / door Kathleen Canning: Republican ideology, gender, and class: France, 1860s -1914 / door Judith F. Stone: Manhood, womanhood, and the politics of class in Britain, 1790-1845 / door Anna Clark: Rational and respectable men: gender, the working class, and citizenship in Britain, 1850-1867 / door Keith McClelland: Class and gender at loggerheads in the early Soviet state: who should organize the female proletariat and how? / door Elizabeth A. Wood: The heroic man and the ever-changing woman: gender and politics in European communism, 1917-1950.