The Labour Governments 1964-70, Volume 1

The Labour Governments 1964-70, Volume 1

Author: Steven Fielding

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780719043642

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This book looks at how the British Labour Party came to terms with the 1960's 'cultural revolution', specifically changes to: the class structure, place of women, black immigration, the generation gap and calls for direct political participation.


The Labour governments 1964–1970 volume 1

The Labour governments 1964–1970 volume 1

Author: Steven Fielding

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1847795161

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book looks at how the British Labour Party came to terms with the 1960's 'cultural revolution', specifically changes to: the class structure, place of women, black immigration, the generation gap and calls for direct political participation.


Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States

Living Wages, Equal Wages: Gender and Labour Market Policies in the United States

Author: Deborah M. Figart

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-08

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1134480164

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Wage setting has historically been a deeply political and cultural as well as economic process. This informative and accessible book explores how US wage regulations in the twentieth century took gender, race-ethnicity and class into account. Focusing on social reform movements for living wages and equal wages, it offers an interdisciplinary account of how women's work and the remuneration for that work has changed along with the massive transformations in the economy and family structures. The controversial issue of establishing living wages for all workers makes this book both a timely and indispensable contribution to this wide ranging debate, and it will surely become required reading for anyone with an interest in modern economic issues.


Disabled Children

Disabled Children

Author: Anne Borsay

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1317320387

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This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries.


Labour Women

Labour Women

Author: Pamela M. Graves

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-02-17

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780521459198

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After winning the vote in 1918, many thousands of working class women joined the Labour Party and Co-operative Movement. This book is about their struggle to find a place in the male world of organised labour politics. In the twenties, labour women challenged male leaders to give them equal status and support for their reform programmes, but the ideas were rejected. For most labour women, dedication to the class cause far outweighed their desire for power, and the struggle for 'women-power' was abandoned. Consequently, despite the common reform agendas of labour women and the middle class feminists of the era, a working alliance was never achieved. Labour Women uses oral and questionnaire testimony to draw a portrait of grass-roots activists. It contrasts labour women's failure to win power in the national organisations with their great achievements in community politics, poor law administration and municipal government.