This book draws upon original research into women's workplace protest to
deliver a new account of working-class women's political identity and
participation in post-war England. Focusing on the voices and
experiences of women who fought for equal pay, skill recognition and the
right to work between 1968 and 1985, it explores why working-class women
engaged in such action when they did, and it analyses the impact of
workplace protest on women's political identity. A combination of oral
history and written sources are used to illuminate how everyday
experiences of gender and class antagonism shaped working-class women's
political identity and participation. The book contributes a fresh
understanding of the relationship between feminism, workplace activism
and trade unionism during the years 1968-1985.