| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 265 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Gender in history
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Gender in history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-256) and index. |
| Contents |
Work for women? Challenges to the gendering of routine work in the LCC and the Civil Service -- Trying to get equal opportunities : women in the higher grades of the LCC and the Civil Service in the first half o the twentieth century -- 'Endless arguments about sex and salaries' : the First World War, reconstruction and the campaigns for equal pay, 1914-24 -- 'As a matter of justice' : the equal pay campaigns from 1924-1939 -- The slow road to victory : the equal pay campaigns from 1939-1954 -- Lark rise to spinsterhood? Women, the public service and marriage bar policy, 1900-46 -- Disabled husbands, deserted wives, working widows : the marriage bar in public servants' private lives until 1946. |
| Summary |
Helen Glew investigates women's employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the 20th century, providing a new perspective on the development of the women's movement. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women in the civil service -- Great Britain -- History.
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Women in the civil service. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Gender, rhetoric & regulation |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Glew, Helen. Gender, rhetoric and regulation. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016 071909027X (DLC) 2016301821 (OCoLC)920735573 |
| ISBN |
9781784996826 |
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1784996823 |
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9781526104458 |
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1526104458 |
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071909027X |
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9780719090271 |
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