Name/TitleTwenty-Fourth Annual Report 1918-1919
About this objectSlim paperback booklet titled 'Twenty-Fourth Annual Report 1918-1919', produced by Scottish Council for Women's Trades and Union for the Abolition of Sweating, Glasgow. The report headings are as follows:
-Objects
-Scottish Council for Women's Trades
-Committees
-Twenty-Fourth Annual Report
-Investigations
-Georgetown
-Legislation on hours of labour
-Schemes for training and employment
-Government committees
-Housing reform
-Equal pay for equal work
-Trade Boards Act
-Bureau for Advice and Information
-Appeal for Funds
-Publications issued by the council
-List of subscriptions and donations
-Abstract Statement of Income and Expenditure for Year to 31st August, 1919
Fully digitised (20 pages)
MakerScottish Council for Women's Trades and Union for the Abolition of Sweating
Period1910s
Place MadeEngland, London
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
Inscription and MarksFront cover, top right, in pencil: "£35"
As above, in blue crayon [?] and partially erased: "W51/53"
MeasurementsH: 214 x W: 140 mm
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's work & labour
Subject and Association Keywordstrade unions
Subject and Association DescriptionThe Scottish Council for Women's Trades was an organisation in the early 1900s that campaigned for improvements in the working conditions of women. The organisation was originally formed in 1894 as the Glasgow Council for Women's Trades. After two investigations were conducted by Margaret Irwin into the workplace conditions for female shop assistants, finding that women were being expected to work 12–17 hours per day, and being forbidden from sitting down while at work, the Glasgow Council for Women's Trades drafted a bill that would require employers to make suitable seating available to their staff. The first attempt to get the bill through the UK Parliament failed, but an immediate second attempt succeeded and the requirement for employers to provide one seat for every three shop employees became law on 1 January 1900 as the Seats for Shop Assistants Act 1899. Margaret Irwin died in 1940; the council had been "wound up" in 1939: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Council_for_Women%27s_Trades
The National Anti-Sweating League is the name adopted by two groups of social reformers in Australia and Britain at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both campaigned against the poor conditions endured by many workers in so-called sweatshops and called for a minimum wage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anti-Sweating_League
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
Object numberGWL-2022-69-2
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved