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Gender, rhetoric and regulation: Women’s work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55 (Gender in History) - Tapa blanda

Libro 12 de 32: Gender in History

Helen Glew

 
9781526146632: Gender, rhetoric and regulation: Women’s work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55 (Gender in History)
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ISBN 10: 1526146630 ISBN 13: 9781526146632
Editorial: Manchester University Press (P648), 2020

Sinopsis

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.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.

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

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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.

This is the first book-length study of women’s public service employment in this period. It is also a new lens through which to examine the women’s movement in this period and a contribution to the debate about the effect of the First World War on women’s employment.

The book examines three key aspects of women’s public service employment: inequality of pay, the marriage bar and inequality of opportunity. In so doing, it delineates the levels of regulation and rhetoric surrounding women’s employment and the extent to which notions about femininity and womanhood shaped employment policies and, ultimately, women’s experiences in the workplace. It draws on a wide range of archival sources, including policy documents, trade union records, women’s movement campaign literature and employees’ personal testimony.

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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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. This is the first book-length study of women s public service employment in this period. It is also a new lens through which to examine the women s movement in this period and a contribution to the debate about the effect of the First World War on women s employment.The book examines three key aspects of women s public service employment: inequality of pay, the marriage bar and inequality of opportunity. In so doing, it delineates the levels of regulation and rhetoric surrounding women s employment and the extent to which notions about femininity and womanhood shaped employment policies and, ultimately, women s experiences in the workplace. It draws on a wide range of archival sources, including policy documents, trade union records, women s movement campaign literature and employees personal testimony.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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Editorial
Manchester University Press (P648)
Año de publicación
2020
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ISBN 10 
1526146630
ISBN 13 
9781526146632
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Número de páginas
282
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