Industrial Women, 1760–1914

Deborah Simonton is Associate Professor of British History, emerita, University of Southern Denmark, Visiting Professor, University of Turku, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

• Volume IV: Law, Resistance and PowerList of ImagesAcknowledgementsGeneral IntroductionIntroduction to Volume IV: Law, Resistance and PowerPart 1. Regulation1. Act of the Town-Council of Edinburgh, Defining and Restricting Women’s Rights to Trade, touching the Admission of Unfreemen, 1737.2. Ebenezer Bain, ‘Aberdeen Tailors and the Labour of Women, 1717-1734’, Merchant and Craft Guilds, A History of The Aberdeen Incorporated Trades, Aberdeen (J. & J. P. Edmond & Spark 1887), 253, 256–59.3. ‘The Fifty-Four Hours’ Movement in the Cotton Trade’, The Blackburn Standard, March 12, 1873.4. ‘Shaftesbury and the Factory Operatives, a Celebration’, Bradford Observer 11 August 1859.5. Ruth Delzell, ‘1847 – The First Ten-Hour for Women in America’, Life and Labor (Women’s Trade Union League). Vol. 2, No. 6. June 1912.6. ‘Women’s Protective and Provident League Consider Recommendations of the Royal Commission’, Englishwoman’s Review, Vol II, December 15th, 1876, 555–57.7. Amy Okey, [Thomas, Mrs.] Labour Laws for Women in Italy. Women's Industrial Council, 1908.8. Amy Bulley, ‘On Unfinished Legislation and Women’s Work’, in Agnes Amy Bulley and Margaret Whitley, Women’s Work (Methuen & Co., 1894), 150–68.9. Beatrice Webb, ‘Women and the Factory Acts’, Problems of Modern Industry by Sidney & Beatrice Webb (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898), 82–101Part 2. Campaigning 10. Report of the US Committee on Female Labour, National Laborer, Nov. 12, 1836, in A Documentary History of American Industrial Society Volume VI. Labor Movement, John R. Commons, Ulrich B. Phillips, Eugene A. Gilmore, Helen L. Sumner, and John B. Andrews (eds.), 281-91.11. Caroline H. Dall, Women’s Right to Labor, or Low Wages and Hard Work, three lectures, Boston; November 1859, (John Wilson and Son, 1860), 3-6.12. Louise Otto-Peters, Das Recht der Frauen auf Erwerb. Blicke auf das Frauenleben der Gegenwart [Women’s Right to Earn a Living; Views on Women’s Lives Today], 1866, 20–2313. 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Edith Abbott and Sophonisba Breckenridge, The Wage-Earning Woman and The State, A Reply to Miss Minnie Bronson, Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, 1912, 1-22.Part 3. Women Striking 20. Ruth Delzell, First Women's Strike in America, 1828 ––Government Report, Life and labor, March 1912, 82-84, Chicago, National Woman's Trade Union League of America, 82.21. Newspaper Reports: New England Mill Strikes, 183422. Harriett Robinson, ‘On Strike’, in Loom and Spindle, or Life among the Early Mill girls (Thomas Crowell and Company, 1898), 83–86.23. Aberdeen Female Operative Union, Detailed Report of the Proceedings of the Operatives since the turn-out, at the Broadford Mill, on Friday, the 7th Instant, containing the speeches delivered at the GREAT MEETING, held in Robert’s Hall, Queen Street, on Saturday evening together with the Rules and Regulations of the Union, which was then organized, &c, 1834.24. Letter from a Mill Lassie on the Late Strike in Dundee, People’s Journal, 187425. Dundee Millworkers’ Strike, 1875, Newspaper Reports26. Annie Besant, Bryant and May and the Match Girls, ‘White Slavery in London’, The Link: A Journal for the Servants of Man, Issue no. 21 (Saturday, 23 June 1888), printed and published for the Proprietor by Annie Besant.27. Reporting the Strike of Bryant and May’s Match Girls, 1888.28. Fulton Mills, Atlanta, White Millworkers Refuse to Work with Negroes, 1897Part 4. Printing29. Employment of Women in Printing, Report of the Fair wages committee, with appendices [and Minutes of evidence] (London, HMSO, 1908), 15-17.30. ‘The Female Question’, Letter to the Editor, Scottish Typographical Circular, August 1904, 341–42.31. ‘Strike and Women’s Union’, Scottish Typographical Circular, April 1906, 53.32. ‘Training Girls as Compositors’, Scottish Typographical Circular, April 1909, 86.33. ‘Statement by Edinburgh Branch on the Female Question’, Scottish Typographical Circular, September 1909, 346–47.34. ‘We Women’ Memorial, Scottish Typographical Journal, June 1910.35. ‘The Edinburgh Movement – Its Progress and Position’, Scottish Typographical Journal, Glasgow, September 1910, vol. XVIII, no. 590, pp. 434–37.36. Belva Mary Herron, ‘Typographers and Lanor Organisation’, The Progress of Labor Organization Among Women, Together with Some Considerations Concerning Their Place in Industry (Illinois University Press, 1905), 15–24.37. Edith Abbott, ‘Printing’, Women in Industry: a Study in American Economic History (D. Appleton and Company, 1910), 249–58.Part 5. Women Organising38. National Union of Working Women, Englishwoman’s Review, Vol II, December 15th, 1876, 557.39. Amy Bulley and Miss Margaret Whitley, ‘Women and Trades Union’, Women’s Work (Methuen & Co., 1894), 66–92.40. Belva Mary Herron, The Progress of Labor Organization Among Women, Together with Some Considerations Concerning Their Place in Industry (Illinois University Press, 1905), 3–6, 7–15.41. Ruth Delzell, ‘1869–The Daughters of St. Crispin’, Life and Labor (W.T.U.L.). Vol. 2 No. 10. October, 1912.42. Adelheid Popp, ‘Education of a Working Woman’, in Autobiograpy of a Workingwoman (Fisher Unwin, 1912, 82-3, 85-9143. Amalie Seidl, ‘Der erste Arbeiterinnenstreik in Wien,’ (The First Women Workers Strike in Austria), in Gedenkbuch, 20 Jahre österreichische Arbeiterinnenbewegung [Memorial Book, 20 Years of the Austrian Women’s Workers’ Movement], ed. by Adelheid Popp (Wien, 1912), 66–69.44. Clara Zetkin, ‘Women’s Work and the Organization of Trade Unions’, Die Gleichheit, Zeitschrift für die Interessen der Arbeiterinnen, [Equality, Magazine for the interests of the working women], Stuttgart (1 November 1893): 51–59.45. W.E.B Du Bois, ‘On Negroes and the Ladies Waist-Makers Union’, The Horizon (Washington, D.C.), 5 (March 1910): 9.46. A Leaflet issued from a Trade Union Office, …. & District Weavers, Winders, Warpers & Reelers’ Association, (Branch of the Amalgamated Weavers’ Association), from B L Hutchins, Women in Modern Industry, 1915, 294–95Part 6. Self-Help47. Frederick Morton Eden, ‘Friendly Societies’, The State of the Poor, 1797. Vol 1, 624–30.48. 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