Helen Glew

Gender, rhetoric and regulation (eBook, ePUB)

Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women in Britain in the early twentieth century. As public employers these institutions influenced both each other and private organisations, thereby serving as a barometer or benchmark for the conditions of women's white-collar employment.

Drawing on a wide range of archival sources - including policy documents, trade union records, women's movement campaign literature and employees' personal testimony - this is the first book-length study of women's public service employment in this period. It examines three aspects of their working lives - inequality of pay, the marriage bar and inequality of opportunity - and demonstrates how far wider cultural assumptions about womanhood shaped policies towards women's employment and experiences. Scholars and students with interests in gender, British social and cultural history and labour history will find this an invaluable text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996208
• Artikelnr.: 48797005

Autorenporträt

Helen Glew is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Westminster

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Work for women? Challenges to the gendering of routine work
in the LCC and the Civil Service, 1914-39 2. Trying to get equal
opportunities: women in the higher grades of the LCC and the Civil Service
in the first half of the twentieth century 3: 'Endless arguments about sex
and salaries': the First World War, reconstruction and the campaigns for
equal pay, 1914-24 4. 'As a matter of justice': the equal pay campaigns
from 1924 to 1939 5 The slow road to victory: the equal pay campaigns from
1939 to 1954 6. Lark rise to spinsterhood? Women, the public service and
marriage bar policy, 1914-46 7. Disabled husbands, deserted wives, working
widows: the marriage bar in public servants' private lives until 1946
Conclusion Index