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Labour Women - Women in British Working Class Politics, 1918-1939 (Hardcover)
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Labour Women - Women in British Working Class Politics, 1918-1939 (Hardcover)
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After winning the vote in 1918, many thousands of working class
women joined the Labour Party and Co-operative Movement. This book
is about their struggle to find a place in the male world of
organised labour politics. In the twenties, labour women challenged
male leaders to give them equal status and support for their reform
programmes, but the ideas were rejected. For most labour women,
dedication to the class cause far outweighed their desire for
power, and the struggle for 'women-power' was abandoned.
Consequently, despite the common reform agendas of labour women and
the middle class feminists of the era, a working alliance was never
achieved. Labour Women uses oral and questionnaire testimony to
draw a portrait of grass-roots activists. It contrasts labour
women's failure to win power in the national organisations with
their great achievements in community politics, poor law
administration and municipal government.
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