"Maternity: Letters from Working-Women" offers a poignant and eye-opening glimpse into the lives of working-class women during a critical period in history. These heartfelt letters reveal the challenges, sacrifices, and joys experienced by women as they balanced the demands of motherhood with their daily labor. The book provides a valuable historical perspective on the struggles faced by working mothers, shedding light on societal norms and conditions of the time. It serves as a testament to the resilience and determination of women throughout history who have sought to provide for their families while nurturing their children.
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Excerpt from Maternity: Letters From Working-Women The whole point Of this book lies in the letters which it contains; and it might therefore have seemed advisable to leave the reader untroubled by an introduction to gather that point from the letters themselves. The material is, however, in form and in subject Of SO un usual a kind that it has been thought necessary to explain something Of its origin and its authors, and even to touch upon some of the problems which the letters so vividly Show to exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
First published in 1915. The Women's Co-Operative Guild, founded in 1883, is an auxilliary of the co-operative movement in the UK which soon expanded beyond the retail-based focus of the movement to organising political campaigns on women's issues including health and suffrage. Maternity benefits were includedi n the National Insurance Act 1911 as a result of the Guild's pressure.
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