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3 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufc.38795
- isbn: 9782848676746
- eisbn: 9782848678788
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Christian Civardi, « Class rather than gender: Women in the Scottish Labour Movement, 1900-1945 », Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, ID : 10.4000/books.pufc.38795
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“Scottish labour history: no woman’s land?” was the provocative title of Jane McDermid’s article for the Labour History Review’s spring issue of 1993. Indeed, to paraphrase Cairns Craig, women were out of history, at least of labour history. Since then, the balance has been redressed to take into account the contribution of women to the workers’ organisations and struggles. The aim of this paper is to try and assess the role of women in the Scottish labour movement in its industrial, political, educational and commercial activities during the first half of the twentieth century. Women were particularly active in the latter two fields, more precisely in the socialist Sunday schools and the co-operative societies, which they often used as stepping stones to a seat in local government. I shall then move on to the often underestimated role of women in industrial action, then to their minimal presence in Parliament, and wind up with a case study of socialist women and birth control.