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Women in the room: labour's forgotten history

By Nan , Sloane

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury UK;I.B. Tauris
Year
2018
ISBN
9781788312233, 9781786724786, 1788312236
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (5931974 bytes)
Pages
XVIII, 252p. : ill. ; .. cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Throughout Labour's history, even in its earliest years, women were present in the room. They came from many backgrounds and they worked for the causes they believed in as organisers, campaigners, negotiators, public speakers and leaders. Amongst them was Isabella Ford, an active socialist and trade unionist and Millicent Fawcett, the President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. They took on the vested interests of their time; sometimes they won. Yet the vast majority of them have been forgotten by the Labour movement that they helped to found. This book tells their story.

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