Women's Trade Union League (United Kingdom)
For the US organization of the same name, see Women's Trade Union League.
The Women's Trade Union League, founded in 1874 and briefly known as the Women's Protective and Provident League, was a British trade union for women workers. It was established by Emma Paterson, who had seen unions managed by working women in America.[1]
References
Further reading
- Christine Bolt (2014). The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s. Routledge. p. 359.
- Jacoby, Robin Miller. "Feminism and Class Consciousness in the British and American Women's Trade Union Leagues, 1890-1925." in Liberating Women's History ed. Berenice Carroll (University of Illinois Press, 1976) pp: 137-60.
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