Wage Rage for Equal Pay

Jocelynne Scutt is Senior Fellow at the University of Buckingham, UK. She published Women and The Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs, Women, Law and Culture – Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict with Palgrave in 2016, and Beauty, Women’s Bodies and the Law – Performances in Plastic with Palgrave in 2020.

• 1. Work, Theory, Scholarship: Equal Pay, Pay Equity and the Sex of Gendered Work.- 2. Intermission: Pay and Personalities I.- 3. A Nineteenth-Century Legacy: Early Days, Equal Pay and Radical Women.- 4. Alarums and Excursions: Infiltrating at the Palace of Versailles.- 5. The Fortunes of the Flapper: The 1920s Generation Confronts the 1930s.- 6. Alarums and Excursion: Women Versus Men Versus Women.- 7. Intruders on the Rights of Man? 1940s Women at War and Work.- 8. Alarums and Excursions: Out of Bounds in the International Arena.- 9. A Decade of Darkness - or into the Light? The Struggles and Success of the 1950s Woman.- 10. Alarums and Excursions: Women Versus Women Versus Men.- 11. The 1960s: Decade of Radical Change or Back to 1912?.- 12. Intermission: Pay and Personalities II.- 13. Ingenuity and Intellectual Rigour: Brazen 1970s Hussies Arguing Back.- 14. Alarums and Excursions: Facts, Fictions, Fallacies and Fancies.- 15. A 1980s Skirmish into Comparable Worth.- 16. Intermission: Pay and Personalities III.- 17. Enterprising Women Confront Enterprise Bargaining: 'I’m All Right Jack' Versus 1990s Woman.- 18. Alarums and Excursions: The Inside Story.- 19. Forward to the Past, Back to the Future: Beyond the New Millennium.- 20. Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting - Women’s Work, Women’s Rights and the Long Equal Pay Struggle.