1st Edition
Emma Paterson, Trade Unionist and Feminist, In Her Own Words
Edited By Steven Parfitt
Copyright 2025
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Emma Paterson was a pioneer of trade unionism for women. In her short life, she set up a League dedicated to that cause, edited a newspaper to publicise it and travelled the UK working for it. Her spoken and written work addressed issues still with us today, from the gender pay gap to domestic labour, and those thankfully consigned to history, such as whether women should be able to vote or find... Read more
Preface
By Frances O’Grady, Past General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Building a Movement, 1874-April 1879
Chapter 2: Societies and Struggles: May 1879-1884
Chapter 3: Final Years: 1885-86
Chapter 4: Obituaries – 1886 to 1921
Biography
Steven Parfitt teaches in the UK. He publishes widely on British, American and global history, including Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland (2016), and in journals such as Labor, the International Review of Social History and the Journal of Global History.
