Women and Work

1945 · Gertrude Williams · The New Democracy series

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Study of women's paid and domestic work in Britain, in The New Democracy series, by Gertrude Williams, with 13 colour pictorial charts designed by the Isotype Institute and 65 photographs (photographic editor Paul Rotha). Chapters cover the scope of women's work, wartime change, the effect of marriage, the work women do, differences in pay and public opinion on married women workers. Listed charts cover men's and women's occupations 1881-1931, age groups and occupations, women's professions in 1911 and 1931, women's occupations by region, weekly earnings, trade union membership, women occupied versus births, the changing home, birth rates by social class, family sizes and women's occupations internationally around 1930. Designed and produced by Adprint Ltd; printed by Jarrold & Sons, Norwich.

Author: Gertrude Williams
Charts: Isotype Institute
Publisher: Nicholson & Watson, London
Series: The New Democracy
Year: 1945
Language: English
Pages: 9
Text: From the PDF, searchable
Rights: Free and open for research use

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women employment occupations wages trade unions birth rate household social class

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