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Total Pages : 876 pages
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Download or read book Women Workers in the General Post Office, 1939-1945 written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark J. Crowley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781350022331
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Post Office Women at War, 1939–45 written by Mark J. Crowley and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Post Office was central to Britain's effort to win the Second World War. From sending mail to connecting telephone calls and processing war savings certificates, its functions united a nation in a sense of common purpose and camaraderie, but also connected Britain with the outside world. Yet, owing to the pressures of military conscription, these essential functions, required to maintain morale on both on the home and military front, were discharged by women workers, many of whom had not previously undertaken such important and complex work. Drawing on a range of archival material, Mark J. Crowley highlights the role of the Post Office and public service in Britain's Second World War home front experience, and examines the vital contribution of women in this area, which has, until now, received little attention from historians. While primarily focusing on the personnel practices affecting the position of women workers in the Post Office and public service, he also draws on the experiences of women workers through surviving oral history accounts, and the limited existing archival material recorded by women workers at the time. While this is not a social history of women's employment in Britain, it will seek to place their experiences of work and duty to the public service in the wider context of the government's expectations of women during the war effort.
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Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Women's Employment in the General Post Office, 1914-1939 written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erika Rappaport
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0857855301
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)
Download or read book Consuming Behaviours written by Erika Rappaport and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twentieth-century Britain, consumerism increasingly defined and redefined individual and social identities. New types of consumers emerged: the idealized working-class consumer, the African consumer and the teenager challenged the prominent position of the middle and upper-class female shopper. Linking politics and pleasure, Consuming Behaviours explores how individual consumers and groups reacted to changes in marketing, government control, popular leisure and the availability of consumer goods. From football to male fashion, tea to savings banks, leading scholars consider a wide range of products, ideas and services and how these were marketed to the British public through periods of imperial decline, economic instability, war, austerity and prosperity. The development of mass consumer society in Britain is examined in relation to the growing cultural hegemony and economic power of the United States, offering comparisons between British consumption patterns and those of other nations. Bridging the divide between historical and cultural studies approaches, Consuming Behaviours discusses what makes British consumer culture distinctive, while acknowledging how these consumer identities are inextricably a product of both Britain's domestic history and its relationship with its Empire, with Europe and with the United States.
Author : Helen Glew
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996203
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Gender, rhetoric and regulation written by Helen Glew and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women in Britain in the early twentieth century. As public employers these institutions influenced both each other and private organisations, thereby serving as a barometer or benchmark for the conditions of women’s white-collar employment. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources – including policy documents, trade union records, women’s movement campaign literature and employees’ personal testimony – this is the first book-length study of women’s public service employment in this period. It examines three aspects of their working lives – inequality of pay, the marriage bar and inequality of opportunity – and demonstrates how far wider cultural assumptions about womanhood shaped policies towards women’s employment and experiences. Scholars and students with interests in gender, British social and cultural history and labour history will find this an invaluable text.
Author : United States. Post Office Department
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Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book A Wartime History of the Post Office Department, World War II, 1939-1945 written by United States. Post Office Department and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eileen Boris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190874627
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Making the Woman Worker written by Eileen Boris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1919 along with the League of Nations, the International Labour Organization (ILO) establishes labor standards and produces knowledge about the world of work, serving as a forum for nations, unions, and employer associations. Before WWII, it focused on enhancing conditions for male industrial workers in Western, often imperial, economies, while restricting the circumstances of women's labors. Over time, the ILO embraced non-discrimination and equal treatment. It now promotes fair globalization, standardized employment and decent work for women in the developing world. In Making the Woman Worker, Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice. Boris analyzes three ways in which the ILO has classified the division of labor: between women and men from 1919 to 1958; between women in the global south and the west from 1955 to 1996; and between the earning and care needs of all workers from 1990s to today. Before 1945, the ILO focused on distinguishing feminized labor from male workers, whom the organization prioritized. But when the world needed more women workers, the ILO (a UN agency after WWII) highlighted the global differences in women's work, began to combat sexism in the workplace, and declared care work essential to women's labor participation. Today, the ILO enters its second century with a mission to protect the interests of all workers in the face of increasingly globalized supply chains, the digitization of homework, and cross-border labor trafficking. As Boris shows, the ILO's treatment of women is a window into the modern history of labor. The historic relegation of feminized labor to the part-time, short-term, and low-waged prefigures the future organization of work. The labor force is increasingly self-employed and working as long as possible--a steep price for flexibility--with minimal governmental oversight. How we treat workers in the next century will inevitably build upon evolving ideas of the woman worker, shaped significantly through the ILO.
Author : Duncan Campbell-Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141973226
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Masters of the Post written by Duncan Campbell-Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the Post Office go back to the early years of the Tudor monarchy: Brian Tuke, a former King's Bailiff in Sandwich, was acknowledged as the first 'Master of the Posts' by Cardinal Wolsey in 1512, and went on to build up a network of 'postmasters' across England for Henry VIII. Over the following five hundred years the Royal Mail expanded to an unimaginable degree to become the largest employer in the country, and the face of the British state for most people in their everyday lives. But it also faced the demands of an increasingly commercial marketplace. With the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979, the possibility of privatising the Royal Mail has prompted passionate arguments - and has added immeasurably to the difficulties of running it. In charting the whole of this extraordinary story, Duncan Campbell-Smith recounts a series of remarkable tales, including how postal engineers built the first programmable computer for the wartime code-breakers of Bletchley Park and how the Royal Mail managed to successfully continue delivering post to the front lines during two world wars, but also how they failed to avert the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He brings to life many of the dominant personalities in the Royal Mail's history - from Rowland Hill, who imposed a uniform penny post and set the great Victorian expansion on its way, to Tony Benn who championed the modernisation of the service in the 1960s and Tom Jackson who led the postal workers' biggest union through fifteen frequently stormy years up to 1982. This is the first complete history of the Royal Mail up to the present day, based on its comprehensive archives, and including the first detailed account of the past half-century of Britain's postal history, made possible by privileged access to confidential records. Today's debate over the future of the Royal Mail is shown to be just the ;atest chapter in a centuries-old conflict between its roles raising revenue and serving the public. Will its employees remain, like Brian Tuke's postmasters, servants of the Crown? This book could hardly appear at a more timely moment.
Author : Sarah Boston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Women Workers and the Trade Unions written by Sarah Boston and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136247262
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Women Workers in the Second World War written by Penny Summerfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme caution, in spite of the desperate need for women’s labour in war work. Women’s own preferences were frequently neglected or distorted in the search for a compromise between production and patriarchy. However, the enduring practices of paying women less and treating them as an inferior category of workers led to growth in the numbers and proportions of women employed after the war in many areas of work. Penny Summerfield concludes that the war accelerated the segregation of women in 'inferior' sectors of work, and inflated the expectation that working women would bear the double burden without a redistribution of responsibility for the domestic sphere between men, women and the state. First published in 1984, this is an important book for students of history, sociology and women’s studies at all levels.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Women in the Federal Service, 1923-1947: Trends in employment written by Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Essays in Economic and Business History written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Volumes 52-71 written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Dewel Benham
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Total Pages : 1244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Women Workers in Paraguay written by Elisabeth Dewel Benham and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G.D.H. Cole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000902005
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Post-War Condition of Britain written by G.D.H. Cole and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, The Post-War Condition of Britain measures the extent of changes in Britain since the thirties. It contains more than two hundred tables on such matters as the national income, employment, production and productivity, investment and consumption; health, education, housing, and the insurance, assistance and similar services; on Trade Unions and industrial relations; class structure, political attitudes and party organizations; and the problems of local government and town and country planning. It is simply written, demanding from the reader the minimum of technical knowledge of economics or other specialized studies, and it should serve as an invaluable reference book for all who need exact information.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Maternity Leave for Government Employees written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (80) S. 784.
