Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland 1850-1914

Inbunden, Engelska, 1991

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Beskrivning

This is a study of working women in Scotland in the period 1850-1914. In a detailed scholarly analysis, based on a wide range of contemporary sources, Eleanor Gordon uncovers the patterns of their employment, their involvement in and relationship to trades unionism, and the forms of their workplace resistance and struggles. Focusing particularly on women working in Dundee's jute industry, Dr Gordon's study integrates labour history and the history of gender. It is a stimulating and thorough account, which challenges many assumptions about the organizational apathy of women workers and about the inevitable division between workplace and domestic ideologies. It makes an important contribution to current historiographical debates over the sexual division of labour, working-class consciousness, and domestic ideologies, and to the history of women in Scotland.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1991-08-15
Mått:144 x 221 x 23 mm
Vikt:532 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198201434

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Eleanor Gordon's book is a significant work ... Gordon's overview of the trade union movement is in fact a preamble to a fascinating assessment of militancy among women workers. ... thoroughly researched, soundly argued, and full of theoretically informed insights ... this is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the history of women and labor protest. Indeed, it will take its place as one of the groundbreaking new studies that demonstrate the imperative for feminist theory to be intergrated into labor history.

Innehållsförteckning

Abbreviations; Introduction; Women's employment in Scotland 1850-1914; The Trade Union Movement in Scotland; Women, Trade Unionism, and Industrial Militancy 1850-1890; The mill, the factory and the community in Dundee's jute industry 1860-1914; Disputes in Dundee's jute industry; Women and Trade Unionism 1890-1914; Women and working-class politics 1900-1914; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index