| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/41/15 |
| Title | 'Restrictive legislation' |
| Date | 1924 - 1937 |
| Description | Correspondence between the NUWT, the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship (NUSEC), Equal Rights General Election Campaign Committee (ERGECC), the Open Door Council and the Workers Educational Association regarding restrictive legislation as it affects women and young people.
Subjects covered include:
Programme for a deputation to Ramsay Macdonald (MP) organised by the ERGECC and the NUSEC regarding various issues around equality for women (Ethel Froud, NUWT General Secretary, was the Vice Chairmen of ERGECC)
Factory legislation and the Factory Bill
List of MPs who have been written to regarding the Employment of Women and Young Persons Bill
List of women MPs elected in 1935
NUWT circular calling for the Government to change legislation that classes women with young persons in industrial legislation
Employment and Young Persons Bill
Arrangements for a conference on 'What is the real protection of the women worker', organised by the NUSEC
Resignation of eleven Officers of the Executive Committee of the NUSEC over changes to the stated policies of NUSEc with regards to restrictive legislation
Night work for women
Maternity rights for women in employment and restrictive legislation which forbade/restricted women from working in industry during or after pregnancy
Reports and publications including:
Report of proceedings of a deputation to the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George (MP) on behalf of ERGECC and NUSEC, 1929
Notes of a deputation received by the Prime Minister at the House of Commons from ERGECC and NUSEC, 1929
'A study of the factors which have operated in the past and those which are operating now to determine the distribution of women in industry', Government publication, 1930
'The New Factories Bill', Industrial Law Bureau, 1926
'The Factories Bill - women wage-earners need real protection - Equal Status and Equal Safeguards', Open Door Council, 1929
'New Factory Legislation - an examination of the Government's Factory Bill', General Council of the Trades Union Congress, 1926
'The 'protection' of industrial women', 1926/1927, Six Point Group
Report from the International Woman Suffrage Alliance 'Committee for like conditions of work for men and women'
'Restrictive legislation an the industrial women worker - a reply by the Open Door Council to the statement by the Standing Joint Committee of Women's Industrial Organisations', 1928
Third Annual Report of the Open Door Council, 1928 - 1929
'Maternity and childbirth', Open Door Council, 1929
Press cuttings regarding:
Disadvantages which protective legislation can result in, in terms of equal rights for women
Factory legislation and the Factory Bill - arguments for and against calls for removal of restrictions placed on women (restrictive legislation)
'The Vote - the Organ of the Women's Freedom League', 17/06/1927
'The Woman's Leader and the Common Cause', 04/06/1926 - includes reports on restrictive legislation
Restrictive legislation affecting women in industry in America and Canada |
| Extent | 2 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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