Women and the labour movement in Scotland, 1850-1914
By: Eleanor Gordon.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Women -- Employment -- Scotland -- History.; Women labor union members -- Scotland -- History.; Jute industry -- Scotland -- Dundee -- History.
Description: A study of working women in Scotland in the period 1850-1914. In a detailed analysis based on a wide range of contemporary sources, the author uncovers the patterns of their employment their involvement in and relationship to trade unionism, and the forms of their resistance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-305) and index.