The Women's Movement and 'Class Struggle
Gender, Class Formation and Political Identity in Women's Strikes, 1968-78
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4951642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George Stevenson (Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 741-755 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2015.1132875 |
| OpenAlex | W2334104208 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Women workers’ industrial disputes were of fundamental importance to the WLM, reflected in the deeds of activists and early participant-histories. These disputes were sites of worker-employer conflict and conflict between feminists and the wider Labour Movement. This article considers how these differing interpretations related to the striking women themselves. It focuses on four key disputes and analyses contemporary reports and the accounts of those involved. It argues women strikers' particular experiences of trade unionism, class politics and feminism resulted in gendered, but still fundamentally class-based, identities, and concludes by considering the position of women workers' industrial actions in feminist histories
Class conflict · Economics · Feminism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Working class · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Law
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |