Women's employment in the General Post Office, 1914-1939

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  • Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
  • Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
  • Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration

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Deals with women staff of GPO, then a Civil Service Dept and one of largest employers of women staff spread across the country. Attempts to explain how and why conditions of their employment differed so substantially from those of men notably with regard to remuneration and career prospects and why this persisted for so long. Also provides a study of women's trade unionism in GPO and the many attempts of this to achieve equality