Gender, rhetoric and regulation Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55 /
Glew, Helen.author.
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
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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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-256) and index.
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.
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Women in the civil service.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Women in the civil service