Striking Women
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Striking Women
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Author : Sundari Anitha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Striking Women written by Sundari Anitha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with East Indians categories.
Striking Women
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Author : Sundari Anitha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Striking Women written by Sundari Anitha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with East Indians categories.
Who were the women who fought back at Grunwick and Gate Gourmet? Striking Women gives a voice to the women involved as they discuss their lives, their work and their trade unions. Striking Women is centred on two industrial disputes, the famous Grunwick strike (1976-78) and the Gate Gourmet dispute that erupted in 2005. Focusing on these two events, the book explores the nature of South Asian women's contribution to the struggles for workers' rights in the UK labour market. The authors examine histories of migration and settlement of two different groups of women of South Asian origin, and how this history, their gendered, classed and racialised inclusion in the labour market, the context of industrial relations in the UK in the two periods and the nature of the trade union movement shaped the trajectories and the outcomes of the two disputes. This is the first account based on the voices of the women involved. Drawing on life/work history interviews with thirty-two women who participated in the two disputes, as well as interviews with trade union officials, archival material and employment tribunal proceedings, the authors explore the motivations, experiences and implications of these events for their political and social identities.
Striking Women
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Striking Women written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Business & Economics categories.
Striking A Light
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Author : Louise Raw
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-03-10
Striking A Light written by Louise Raw and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-10 with History categories.
In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East End factory and into the history books. Louise Raw gives us a challenging new interpretation of events proving that the women themselves, not celebrity socialists like Annie Besant, began it. She provides unequivocal evidence to show that the matchwomen greatly influenced the Dock Strike of 1889, which until now was thought to be the key event of new unionism, and repositions them as the mothers of the modern labour movement. Returning to the stories of the women themselves, and by interviewing their relatives today, Raw is able to construct a new history which challenges existing accounts of the strike itself and radically alters the accepted history of the labour movement in Britain.
Striking Beauties
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Author : Michelle Haberland
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2015-03-01
Striking Beauties written by Michelle Haberland and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-01 with History categories.
Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking Beauties, Michelle Haberland examines its essential features and the varied experiences of its workers during the industry's great expansion from the late 1930s through the demise of its southern branch at the end of the twentieth century. The popular conception of the early twentieth-century South as largely agrarian informs many histories of industry and labor in the United States. But as Haberland demonstrates, the apparel industry became a key part of the southern economy after the Great Depression and a major driver of southern industrialization. The gender and racial composition of the workforce, the growth of trade unions, technology, and capital investment were all powerful forces in apparel's migration south. Yet those same forces also revealed the tensions caused by racial and gender inequities not only in the region but in the nation at large. Striking Beauties places the struggles of working women for racial and economic justice in the larger context of southern history. The role of women as the primary consumers of the family placed them in a critical position to influence the success or failure of boycotts, union label programs and ultimately solidarity.
Striking Women
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Author : Bruce R. Fehn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Striking Women written by Bruce R. Fehn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
We Shall Not Be Moved The Women S Factory Strike Of 1909
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Author : Joan Dash
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 1998
We Shall Not Be Moved The Women S Factory Strike Of 1909 written by Joan Dash and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
In the early 1900s, the shirtwaist industry in New York was very unfair to the young women employed in its factories. Now in paperback is the story of teenage workers and important female activists in their courageous fight for humane working conditions in 1909. Photos.
Women Workers On Strike
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Author : Roxanne Newton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Women Workers On Strike written by Roxanne Newton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Feminism categories.
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Cutting Edge
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Author : Vicky Seddon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Cutting Edge written by Vicky Seddon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Coal Strike, Great Britain, 1984-1985 categories.
We Stand As One
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Author : Laura B. Edge
language : en
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Release Date : 2010-08-01
We Stand As One written by Laura B. Edge and has been published by Twenty-First Century Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-01 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
"Girls, from the bottom of my heart, I beg you not to go back to work. We are all poor, many of us are suffering hunger, none of us can afford to lose a day's wages. But only by fighting for our rights, and fighting all together, can we better our miseries; and so let us fight for them to the end!"―Nineteen-year-old shirtwaist striker, November 1909 In 1909, on the Lower East Side of New York, thousands of immigrant women—many only teenagers―toiled at shirtwaist factories. For up to twelve hours a day, seven days a week, they hunched over sewing machines, making women's blouses. The work was tedious, the pay was low, and the factories were unsafe. Women who dared complain usually were fired. But on November 23, 1909, twenty-thousand shirtwaist workers from five hundred factories walked off the job. Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, they vowed to strike until factory owners met their demands. They wanted a fifty-two-hour workweek, fair wages, and a guarantee that factories would hire only union workers. Police harassed and arrested the picketers. But they endured for almost three months, and factory owners finally met many of their demands. In this captivating story of grit and determination, we'll explore how the strike became a rallying point for both women and men in the labor movement. We'll also see how the shirtwaist strike dovetailed with the fight for women's suffrage―the right to vote―and for other civil rights reforms.