Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation - Women s Work in Civil Service London County Council, 190055

Informationen zum Autor Helen Glew is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Westminster Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. Work for women? Challenges to the gendering of routine work in the LCC and the Civil Service, 1914-392. Trying to get equal opportunities: women in the higher grades of the LCC and the Civil Service in the first half of the twentieth century3: 'Endless arguments about sex and salaries': the First World War, reconstruction and the campaigns for equal pay, 1914-244. 'As a matter of justice': the equal pay campaigns from 1924 to 19395 The slow road to victory: the equal pay campaigns from 1939 to 19546. Lark rise to spinsterhood? Women, the public service and marriage bar policy, 1914-467. Disabled husbands, deserted wives, working widows: the marriage bar in public servants' private lives until 1946ConclusionIndex

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• Authors: Helen Glew
• Assisted by: Penny Summerfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9780719090271
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9027-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Gender in History; Gender in History Mup; Gender in History; Gender in History Mup
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories