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- About this book
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This book is the first full length history of the all-female National Federation of Women Workers (1906-21) led by the gifted and charismatic Mary Macarthur. Its focus is on the people who made up this pioneering union - the organisers, activists and members who built branches and struggled to improve the lives of Britain's working women.
- About the authors
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Cathy Hunt is a Senior Lecturer for History at Coventry University, UK. Her research to date has focused on the roles of women in the British labour movement in the first half of the twentieth century, with particular interest on grassroots trade union membership and municipal politics.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-22
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Beginnings
Pages 23-42
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Building a Union, 1906–14
Pages 43-63
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The First World War
Pages 64-94
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The Final Phase, 1918–21
Pages 95-115
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The National Federation of Women Workers, 1906-1921
- Authors
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- Cathy Hunt
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-03354-3
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137033543
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-03353-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-44152-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 240
- Topics
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