'Factory work for women' in B Lancaster & T Mason (eds), Life and Labour in a Twentieth Century City. The experience of Coventry

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Author(s) Castle, Josie
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1986
Pages pp133-71
Publisher University of Warwick
Place Published Coventry

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Name Worker / employee & work, women alone

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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'Focus of this chapter is the experience of working women in two major Coventry industries in the interwar period, Courtaulds rayon factory ... and General Electrics Co's telephone and wireless factory'. Analyses conditions, nature of work, position of women relative to men, perception of women by male management, etc. See the writer's 'Factory Work for Women in Interwar Britain. The experience of women workers at GEC and Coutaulds in Coventry', MA, Warwick, 1984