Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Glew, Helen. Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Gender, rhetoric and regulation [Texte imprimé] : women's work in the civil service and the London County Council, 1900-55 / Helen Glew
Publication : Manchester (GB) : Manchester University Press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-265 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Gender in history
Lien à la collection : Gender in history
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 242-256. Notes bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Index
The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women
in Britain in the early twentieth century. As public employers these institutions
influenced both each other and private organisations, thereby serving as a barometer
or benchmark for the conditions of women's white-collar employment. Drawing on a wide
range of archival sources - including policy documents, trade union records, women's
movement campaign literature and employees' personal testimony - this is the first
book-length study of women's public service employment in this period. It examines
three aspects of their working lives - inequality of pay, the marriage bar and inequality
of opportunity - and demonstrates how far wider cultural assumptions about womanhood
shaped policies towards women's employment and experiences. Scholars and students
with interests in gender, British social and cultural history and labour history will
find this an invaluable text.
Sujet(s) : Femmes dans la fonction publique -- Londres (GB) -- XXe siècle
Rôle selon le sexe -- Travail -- Londres (GB) -- XXe siècle
Londres (Comté). Council -- Condition féminine
Indice(s) Dewey : 331.481 35142 (23e éd.) = Femmes au travail dans l'administration publique - Angleterre
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780719090271 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455844520
Notice n° :
FRBNF45584452
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Work for women? Challenges to the gendering of routine work in the LCC and the Civil Service ; Trying to get equal opportunities : women in the higher grades of the LCC and the Civil Service in the first half o the twentieth century ; 'Endless arguments about sex and salaries' : the First World War, reconstruction and the campaigns for equal pay, 1914-24 ; 'As a matter of justice' : the equal pay campaigns from 1924-1939 ; The slow road to victory : the equal pay campaigns from 1939-1954 ; Lark rise to spinsterhood? Women, the public service and marriage bar policy, 1900-46 ; Disabled husbands, deserted wives, working widows : the marriage bar in public servants' private lives until 1946.