Labour Women in Power
Title | Labour Women in Power PDF eBook |
Author | Paula Bartley |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2019-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030142884 |
This book examines the political lives and contributions of Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson, Barbara Castle, Judith Hart and Shirley Williams, the only five women to achieve Cabinet rank in a Labour Government from the party’s creation until Blair became Prime Minister. Paula Bartley brings together newly discovered archival material and published work to provide a survey of these women, all of whom managed to make a mark out of all proportion to their numbers. Charting their ideas, characters, and formative influences, Bartley provides an account of their rise to power, analysing their contribution to policy making, and assessing their significance and reputation. She shows that these women were not a homogeneous group, but came from diverse family backgrounds, entered politics in their own discrete way, and rose to power at different times. Some were more successful than others, but despite their diversity these women shared one thing in common: they all functioned in a male world.
Women and New Labour
Title | Women and New Labour PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Annesley |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781861348272 |
New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues and attract women voters, but how successful have they been? This book offers an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective.
The Power to Choose
Title | The Power to Choose PDF eBook |
Author | Naila Kabeer |
Publisher | Verso |
Total Pages | 484 |
Release | 2002-08-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781859842065 |
Naila Kabeer examines the lives of women workers in different urban centers to shed light on the question of what constitutes 'fair' competition in international trade.
Doing the Dirty Work?
Title | Doing the Dirty Work? PDF eBook |
Author | Bridget Anderson |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2000-02 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781856497619 |
There has been a tendency amongst feminists to see domestic work as the great leveller, a common burden imposed on all women equally by patriarchy. This unique study of migrant domestic workers in the North uncovers some uncomfortable facts about the race and class aspects of domestic oppression. Based on original research, it looks at the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the North - a phenomenon which challenges feminsim and political theory at a fundamental level. The book opens with an exploration of the public/private divide and an overview of the debates on women and power. The author goes on to provide a map of employment patterns of migrant women in domestic work in the North; she describes the work they perform, their living and working conditions and their employment relations. A chapter on the US explores the connections between slavery and contemporary domestic service while a section on commodification examines the extent to which migrant domestic workers are not selling their labour but their whole personhood. The book also looks at the role of the Other in managing dirt, death and pollution and the effects of the feminisation of the labour market - as middle class white women have greater presence in the public sphere, they are more likely to push responsibility for domestic work onto other women. In its depiction of the treatment of women from the South by women in the North, the book asks some difficult questions about the common bond of womanhood. Packed with information on the numbers of migrant women working as domestics, the racism, immigration or employment legislation that constrains their lives, and testimonies from the workers themselves, this is the most comprehensive study of migrant domestic workers available.
Women and Work
Title | Women and Work PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Ferguson |
Publisher | Mapping Social Reproduction Theory |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Arbejde |
ISBN | 9780745338729 |
An analysis of the divergent strands of feminism, as the fight for women's emancipation takes centre stage.
Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780–1860
Title | Female Labour Power: Women Workers’ Influence on Business Practices in the British and American Cotton Industries, 1780–1860 PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Greenlees |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2017-03-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351936735 |
Britain and America were the first two countries with mechanised cotton manufacturing industries, the first major factory systems of production and the first major employers of women outside of the domestic environment. The combination of being new wage earners in the first trans-national industry and their public prominence as workers makes these women's role as employees significant; they set the early standard for women as waged labour, to which later female workers were compared. This book analyses how women workers influenced patterns of industrial organization and offers a new perspective on relationships between gender and work and on industrial development. The primary theme of the study is the attempt to control the work process through co-operation, coercion and conflict between women workers, their male counterparts and manufacturers. Drawing upon examples of women's subversive activities and attitudes toward the discourses of labour, the book emphasizes the variety of women's work experiences. By using this diversity of experience in a comparative way, the book reaches conclusions that challenge a variety of historical concepts, including separate spheres of influence for men and women and related economic theories, for example that women were passive players in the workplace, evolutionary theories with respect to industrial development, and business culture within and between the two industries. Overall it provides the fresh approach that highlights and explains women's agency as operatives and paid workers during industrialization.
Gender and Power in the Workplace
Title | Gender and Power in the Workplace PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Bradley |
Publisher | Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0333681789 |
On gender discrimination in the workplace.