Investigates women's employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women's movement.
Investigates women's employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women's movement.
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
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
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
