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The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia: Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer

Book information

Publisher
University of Washington Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0774804254, 9780774804257
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28635342 bytes)
Pages
352\352
Time added
2015-02-07 00:16:15

Description

When Helena Gutteridge died in 1960, she left behind a legacy of social and political reform. She was born into a working-class family in England where, as a young woman, she was involved in the militant struggle for votes for women. When she arrived in British Columbia in 1911, she quickly became a champion for the rights of women and workers. In this book, Irene Howard chronicles Gutteridge's life and struggles for these causes - for women's suffrage, for jobs for the unemployed and union recognition, for the minimum wage, and for low-cost housing. Following a term on Vancouver's City Council - she was in 1937 the first woman to be elected to Council - she worked in a Japanese internment camp. She continued to work for several left-wing and women's causes until her death at the age of 81. As was typical for a woman of her class and time, Helena Gutteridge did not keep personal records, nor did organizational records exist to any extent.

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