Preliminary Programme

This paper considers how Labour movement women related to contemporary feminism and to the Labour Party in two time periods, that of the Wilson and Callaghan governments and oppositions in the 1960s/70S and that of Margaret Thatcher's governments in the 1980s. It argues that women were more esily able to make gains in the earlier period, and met resistance in the later, despite increases in femiist actiity nd consciusness. In particular, it loks at the struggle over education and training as prerequisites for equality within the workforce. (Show less)

This paper tries to fill a gap in Spanish Historiography about trade unions and women’s work during industrial revolution. It’s truth that this question has been studied by the most of European national historiographies, but not in Spain where historians haven’t made a wide-ranging analysis. Paper will analyze roll of several Spanish textile unions about gender speech and unionism strategies, from the earliest worker’s movement to the first national trade unions, like TCV or CNT. As other European countries, Spanish textile unions will develop women exclusion strategies of mills and they defended that woman place was at home. In this way, paper describes the changes about woman exclusion speech and unionism politics from 1840 to 1923, and at the same time tries to extract general conclusions in order to compare with other European cases. (Show less)

The central purpose of this work is to draw the main lines of the female participation in the glass sector and to define the characteristics of the sexual division of work established in this sector too.

The work takes into consideration the changes produced in the glass-making process from the end of the 19th century, and the existing differences in the work organisation in this industry according to the different products made: flat glass, making of bottles, crystal and the new sector of the making of light bulbs.

The definition of the tasks done by the unskilled women meant their wage discrimination. From the intervention of women in different conflicts, above all in the period 1914-1919, you can see the existing contradictions between the women’s interests and the trade unions’, which even tried to exclude them from the most skilled jobs. (Show less)