Table of Contents

Preface by Frances O'Grady Introduction 1. 'Their proper sphere at home' 1874 2. '...and Women' 1874-1906 3. 'The wage that never rises' 1906-1914 4. 'Don't blackleg your man in Flanders' 1914-1918 5. 'Women must go' 1918-1923 6. 'Asking for bread and getting a stone' 1923-1939 7. 'Woman power' 1939-1945 8. 'Liberty on your lips' 1945-1950 9. 'Be true to us on budget day' 1950-1960 10. 'Little indication of progress' 1960-1968 11. 'You'll have to do it yourselves' 1968-1975 12. 'Charters are no Aladdin's lamp' 1976-1986 13. New chapter 'Become feminine or we will become fringe' 1987-1997 14. New chapter 'Our daughters and our granddaughters' 1997-2010 Selected bibliography Index

About the Author

Sarah Boston is an award winning documentary film maker and author and has been a trade union member (ACTT/BECTU) since 1967. Her experience in the early 1970s when she, with a small group of women, challenged their union's discriminatory practices, led her to embark on research into other unions and their history.