Saothar 36
€20.00
2011 issue
Contents
- Editorial: Researching women and researching labour;
- Mary Muldowney – Breaking the mould? The employment of women in Irish railway companies during the First World War;
- James Curry – Delia Larkin: ‘More harm to the Big Fellow than any of the employers?’;
- Elizabeth Kyte – Sighle Humphreys: a case study in irish socialist feminism, 1920s-1930s;
- Mary McAuliffe – The Irish woman worker and the Conditions of Employment Act, 1936 – responses from the Irish Free State women Senators;
- Aisling Farrell – ‘Harassed housewives fight the consumer’s battle’: the formation of the Irish Housewives’ Association & the campaign for price control, clean food and equitable distribution in the Ireland of ‘The Emergency’;
- Jennifer Redmond – The largest remaining reserve of manpower: historical myopia, Irish women workers and World War Two;
- Francis Devine – ‘Second class citizens who are being subsidised by the men …’:Women in the Irish Transport & General Workers’ Union and Workers’ Union of Ireland, 1945-1960;
- Margaret Ayres – Equal pay for women: words not deeds?;
- Theresa Moriarty – Labour Lives no 13: May (Abraham) Tennant, 1869-1946;
- Laurence Marley – The state of labour history: international perspectives (review essay);
- Film review;
- Reviews;
- Conferences and events;
- Obituaries;
- Correspondence;
- Irish Labour History Society, 2010;