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Book Chapter
Unseemly Behaviour
2014
Overview
Local authority strikes, like that of the Liverpool gravediggers, represented only one of the myriad actions deployed in British public sector unions’ co-ordinated actions during the Winter of Discontent. One key aspect of these disputes in particular, the involvement of women, has been relatively ignored in the literature.¹ Women working for local authorities, from school meals workers to assistants in care homes for the elderly, began to reveal themselves as a robust industrial force in the midst of these upheavals. For decades, local authorities in Britain experienced a rapid growth in female employment. From 1949 to 1974, employment in local
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
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ISBN
1781380295, 9781781380291
