Women's Industrial Council

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Eleanor Rathbone
Rathbone and Macadam collaborated on many social and political projects, most with feminist aims. They began by stabilising the Settlement's budget and community programmes. The two then served on the founding committee of the School of Social Studies and Training for Social Work
politics Clementina Black
CB participated in work that helped to produce the founding of the Women's Industrial Council , formerly the Women's Trade Union Association.
Glage, Liselotte. Clementina Black: A Study in Social History and Literature. Carl Winter, 1981.
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politics Clementina Black
CB resigned as president of the Women's Industrial Council to protest the executive committee's refusal to endorse unequivocally the establishment of wage boards.
Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2024, 2 vols.
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politics Eleanor Rathbone
Her friend and biographer Mary Stocks observes that [i]n due course, she became its leading spirit,
Stocks, Mary. Eleanor Rathbone: A Biography. Gollancz, 1949.
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particularly as a public speaker and administrator. She also joined the Women's Industrial Council and the National Executive...
Textual Production Clementina Black
As a member of the Women's Industrial Council and the Women's Labour League , CB advocated trade unionism, consumer action, more factory legislation, and the establishment of a minimum wage. She lectured and wrote extensively...

Timeline

26 November 1894: The Women's Industrial Council was formed...

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26 November 1894

The Women's Industrial Council was formed in London (with Richard Haldane as President) from the earlier Women's Trade Union Association .
Mappen, Ellen. Helping Women at Work: The Women’s Industrial Council, 1889-1914. Hutchinson in association with the Explorations in Feminism Collective, 1985.
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Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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Collette, Christine. For Labour and For Women: The Women’s Labour League, 1906-1918. Manchester University Press, 1989.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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October 1895: The Women's Industrial News began quarterly...

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October 1895

The Women's Industrial News began quarterly publication from the Women's Industrial Council in London.
Mappen, Ellen. Helping Women at Work: The Women’s Industrial Council, 1889-1914. Hutchinson in association with the Explorations in Feminism Collective, 1985.
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Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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1898: Life in the Shop, a series of articles based...

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1898

Life in the Shop, a series of articles based on Margaret Bondfield 's survey of shop assistants' working conditions, was published in the Daily Chronicle.
Holcombe, Lee. Victorian Ladies At Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850-1914. Archon Books, 1973.
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Soldon, Norbert. Women in British Trade Unions 1874-1976. Gill and Macmillan, 1978.
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February 1899: The Women's Industrial Council formed, in...

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February 1899

The Women's Industrial Council formed, in England, the Clubs Industrial Association , which later became the National Organization of Girls' Clubs .
Mappen, Ellen. Helping Women at Work: The Women’s Industrial Council, 1889-1914. Hutchinson in association with the Explorations in Feminism Collective, 1985.
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19 May 1906: Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, newly-elected...

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19 May 1906

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman , newly-elected Prime Minister, received a deputation of suffragists.
Hume, Leslie Parker. The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, 1897-1914. Garland, 1982.
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Holton, Sandra Stanley. Suffrage Days: Stories from the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Routledge, 1996.
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1911: The Women's Industrial Council opened a nursery...

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1911

The Women's Industrial Council opened a nursery training school at Hackney.
Mappen, Ellen. Helping Women at Work: The Women’s Industrial Council, 1889-1914. Hutchinson in association with the Explorations in Feminism Collective, 1985.
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April 1919: The Women's Industrial News, the quarterly...

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April 1919

The Women's Industrial News, the quarterly organ of the Women's Industrial Council , ceased publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
19
Harrison, Royden et al. The Warwick Guide to British Labour Periodicals, 1790-1970: A Check List. Harvester Press, 1977.
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