Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation: Women's Work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55 by Helen Glew

Author:Helen Glew [Glew, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Great Britain, Europe, Social Science, Social History, History, General, Gender Studies
ISBN: 9780719090271
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Goodreads: 26404018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1BPMA, POST 115/456, The Post, Letters to the Editor, letter from H. Brewer, 19 October 1929, p.318.

2POST 115/93, Opportunity, ‘Civil Service Rhymes – IV’, March 1939, p.39.

3Smith, ‘British Feminism and the Equal Pay Issue’, pp.97–110; Oram, Women Teachers, p.4; Graves, Labour Women, p.132; Boston, Women Workers and the Trade Unions, p.46.

4Lewenhak, Women and Trade Unions, p.229.

5See, for example, POST 115/451, The Post, ‘Equal Pay’, 26 February 1927, p.188; Tomlin Commission, Report, para. 463.

6Oram, Women Teachers, p.4; Pugh, Women and the Women’s Movement, p.96. For a discussion of the importances of the FWCS/NAWCS see Glew, ‘Women in the Post Office’, chapter 4 and B.V. Humphries, Clerical Unions in the Civil Service, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958), p.154.

7TNA, T162/674/4, ‘Establishment. Salary: General: Equal pay for men and women employed on similar duties in the Civil Service’, memorandum from Churchill to his staff, 28 May 1925.

8The FWCS chose to leave the Civil Service Alliance in 1921 over fears that they would be forced to compromise on their feminist principles. They had a seat on the Whitley Council by virtue of being part of the Alliance but their withdrawal meant the loss of the seat. BPMA, POST 115/86, Opportunity, Annual Report of the FWCS, Supplement to Opportunity, June 1922, p.v.

9The activities of the association are best documented in the UPW minutes. See MRC, MSS.148/UCW/2/1 and subsequent minutes of meetings.

10Correspondence and decision as quoted in MRC, MSS.148/UCW/2/1/14, UPW executive committee meeting 14–16 April 1931.

11POST 115/449, The Post, ‘Report of Conference Proceedings’, 12 June 1926, pp.431–432. Boston, Women Workers and the Trade Unions, pp.168–169.

12Boston, Women Workers and the Trade Unions, pp.168–169. The NAWCS made a similar point: BPMA, POST 115/90, Opportunity, ‘The Outlook: Each for All and All for Each’, June 1934, pp.97–98.

13This was widely discussed. For an overview of the debates and opposition see Hilary Land, ‘The Family Wage’, Feminist Review, no. 6 (1980), pp.55–77.

14Oram, Women Teachers, p.50; p.59.

15Vera Brittain, ‘Women Still Wait for Equality’, Daily Herald, 26 March 1938, reprinted in Paul Berry and Alan Bishop (eds), Testament of a Generation: The Journalism of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby (London: Virago, 1985), pp.144–147.

16Oram, Women Teachers, p.63; Wilson, ‘Women’s Work in Offices and the Preservation of Men’s “Breadwinning” Jobs’, p.472; Todd, Young Women, Work and the Family, pp.54–84.

17BPMA, POST 115/441, The Post, ‘Telephone Secretary’s Letter’, March 1922, p.269.

18WL, 6NCS, Box FL435, NAWCS [sic]: equal pay, 1929 general election.

19BPMA, POST 115/90, Opportunity, ‘Dependent Relatives and the Cost of Living’, June 1933, p.95.

20Susan Pedersen, Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), p.152; Pat Thane, Foundations of the Welfare State, 2nd edn (Harlow: Longman, 1996), pp.200–203. Rathbone, ‘The Remuneration of Women’s Services’.

21Smith, ‘Sex vs Class’, pp.27–8; Law, Suffrage and Power, p.166; Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry, Appendix, pp.155–156; MRC, MSS.148/UCW/3/7/2, Civil Service Equal Pay Committee, folder no. 5, ‘Equal Pay and Family Allowances’, 16 July 1935.

22POST 115/445. The Post, letter from M. Lewis of the Glasgow Telephonists, 28 June 1924, p.647. See also The Post, 21 June 1924, p.

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