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Labour Women
Pamela M. Graves
其他書名
Women in British Working Class Politics, 1918-1939
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 1994-02-17
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties
Political Science / Women in Politics
Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN
0521459192
9780521459198
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-2R1bmDquigC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
After winning the vote in 1918, many thousands of working class women joined the Labour Party and Co-operative Movement. This book is about their struggle to find a place in the male world of organised labour politics. In the twenties, labour women challenged male leaders to give them equal status and support for their reform programmes, but the ideas were rejected. For most labour women, dedication to the class cause far outweighed their desire for power, and the struggle for 'women-power' was abandoned. Consequently, despite the common reform agendas of labour women and the middle class feminists of the era, a working alliance was never achieved. Labour Women uses oral and questionnaire testimony to draw a portrait of grass-roots activists. It contrasts labour women's failure to win power in the national organisations with their great achievements in community politics, poor law administration and municipal government.