Gender, rhetoric and regulation Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900–55 / Helen Glew

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glew, Helen, author.

Series:

Gender in history.

Gender in history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the civil service.

Women in the civil service--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-256) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5261-0445-8

1-78499-682-3

OCLC:

981863604