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The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway (Paperback)
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The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway (Paperback)
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List price R395
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Discovery Miles 3 620
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The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women
question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway
Sheet and Official Gazette that 'the first aim of women's existence
is marriage, that accomplished, the next is ordering her home'. Yet
women were the cheapest form of labour, apart from young girls,
presenting the company with a dilemma and the GWR finally succumbed
to allowing women to work after heavy external pressures. Using
over 100 pictures, Swindon author Rosa Matheson traces the
development of this problematic relationship, from its beginnings
in the 1870s when women were employed as sewers and netters at
Swindon Works, through the changes wrought by the two world wars
and the entry of women into railway offices - fiercely opposed by
the company and by the unions and many men who resented sharing the
lowly paid but prestigious title of 'clerk' with women. The book
also uses many original documents and forms as well as written and
oral testimonies providing first-hand insights into the women's
experiences.
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