Women's Trade Union League

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Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
politics Clementina Black
CB was appointed Honorary Secretary of the Women's Protective and Provident League , one of the first organizations concerned with the rights of working women.
Broomfield, Andrea, and Sally Mitchell, editors. Prose by Victorian Women. Garland.
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Textual Production Clementina Black
CB edited and contributed to one of the Women's Trade Union League 's best known reports, Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council.
Caine, Barbara. English Feminism, 1780-1980. Oxford University Press, http://U of G.
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politics Clementina Black
In May 1889, dissatisfied with the moderate measures taken by the Women's Protective and Provident League , CB resigned, convinced . . . that a more radical, socialist approach to women's trade unionism was needed.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press.
Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter.
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Occupation Isabella Ormston Ford
In 1896, IOF became a member of the central council of the Women's Trade Union League and the executive committee of the Humanitarian League . After 1900, however, she no longer put her energy towards...
Textual Production Isabella Ormston Ford
IOF gave her first public speech when she decided to support striking female weavers in Leeds in October 1888. Despite her nervousness—she sometimes characterized herself as terrified by the faces gazing at me
Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell.
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—expressing...
Occupation Amy Levy
She also this year helped Clementina Black in the office of the Women's Protective and Provident League .
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press.
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politics Edith J. Simcox
During the illness of her former collaborator Emma Paterson , EJS assumed her roles as acting secretary for the Women's Protective and Provident League and editor of the Women's Union Journal; she, with Lady Dilke

Timeline

1874: Emma Paterson founded the Women's Protective...

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1874

Emma Paterson founded the Women's Protective and Provident League to promote the organization of women workers in England.

February 1876: Emma Paterson launched, as editor, the first...

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February 1876

Emma Paterson launched, as editor, the first issue of the Women's Union Journal, a monthly publication of the Women's Protective and Provident League , an organization founded by Paterson in London in July 1874...

1878: Emma Paterson and the Women's Protective...

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1888: The inaugural meeting of the Scottish branch...

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1888

The inaugural meeting of the Scottish branch of the Women's Protective and Provident League was held in Glasgow and sponsored by the Glasgow Trades Union Council .

1891: The Women's Protective and Provident League...

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1891

The Women's Protective and Provident League (founded 1874) changed its name to the Women's Trade Union League , after a two-year period as the Women's Trades Union Provident League .

1894: The Women's Trade Union League established...

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1920: The Women's Trade Union League merged with...

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1920

The Women's Trade Union League merged with the Trades Union Congress with agreement that women would hold two protected seats on the General Council; three more seats were added in 1981.

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