Women's work, artisanal discourse, and community: A response to Sheila Blackburn

Women's History Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 137-144

  Morgan, Carol E ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

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EID: 34247726507     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612020100200277     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Carol Morgan (1997) Gender Constructions and Gender Relations in Cotton and Chain-making in England: a contested and varied terrain, Women's History Review, 6, pp. 367-389
2. Sheila Blackburn (1987) Employers and Social Policy: Black Country chain-masters, the minimum wage campaign and the Cradley Heath strike of 1910, Midland History, 12, pp. 85-102
3. Sheila Blackburn (1988) Working-class Attitudes to Social Reform: Black Country chain-makers and anti-sweating legislation, 1880-1930, International Review of Social History, 33, pp. 42-69
4. Blackburn, 'Working-class Attitudes'
5. See County Advertiser, January-March 1883
6. Female Labour in the District, County Advertiser, 24 February 1883; Female Labour in the District, County Advertiser, 6 January 1883
7. Eric Taylor, The Midland Counties Trades Federation, 1886-1914, Midland History, 1, pp. 27-33. Blackburn notes the affiliation of Cradley Heath chain-makers with the MCTF. Blackburn, 'Working-class Attitudes', p. 54
8. Letter to editor, Sunday Chronicle, 5 December 1886
9. Morgan, 'Gender constructions', pp. 376-377
10. Maxine Berg (1985) The Age of Manufactures: industry, innovation and work in Britain 1700-1820, pp. 159-160 (Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble)
11. Female Labour in the Black Country, Birmingham Daily Post, 2 April 1891
12. See Morgan, 'Gender Constructions', p. 377
13. Birmingham Daily Post, 20 April 1891
14. Trades Union Congress, Parliamentary Committee Report, 1888, p. 4; Midland Counties Trades Federation, Labour Tribune, 4 August 1888. Blackburn notes Juggins' support for this position. 'Working-class Attitudes', p. 54
15. Trades Union Congress Report, 1888, p. 48
16. For the changing perspective within the Women's Trade Union League, see Rosemary Feurer (1988) The Meaning of 'Sisterhood': the British women's movement and protective labor legislation, 1870-1900, Victorian Studies, 31, pp. 233-260
17. Lady Dilke at Cradley Heath, County Advertiser, 19 October 1889
18. James Smith of the Cradley Heath Chain-makers noted the 'great difficulty' in organising women workers and the problem of 'wring[ing] contributions from the women'. Mass meeting of chain-makers at Cradley Heath, County Advertiser, 23 October 1897
19. Neville Kirk (1994) History, Language, Ideas and Post-modernism: a materialist view, Social History, 19, p. 239
20. Marc W. Steinberg (1996) Culturally Speaking: finding a commons between post-structuralism and the Thompsonian perspective, Social History, 21, pp. 203-204
21. Sonya Rose (1998) Resuscitating Class, Social Science History, 22, p. 21
22. Eleanor Gordon (1991) Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
23. Michael Savage (1987) The Dynamics of Working-class Politics: the labour movement in Preston, 1880-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
24. Robert Gray (1996) The Factory Question and Industrial England, 1830-1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Perhaps in a brief article it is impossible to give sufficient weight to work of such significance. My intention was simply to call attention to its importance and its broader implications and application