| Autor: |
Eyben, Rosalind |
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Women's History Review; May2024, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p335-354, 20p |
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Whereas during the great labour unrest before the First World War, militant suffragists (suffragettes) sometimes addressed rallies of striking women workers, an earlier strike by waitresses in a Piccadilly tea-shop was exceptional for their hands-on support. That strike and its consequences is the focus of this article that uses digitised press archives to consider the working lives of tea-shop waitresses between 1890 and 1914 within the context of the women's suffrage movement. The first widespread attention the press gave to the new occupation of tea-shop waitresses was in 1896 when they were hired to replace waiters to serve tea on the terrace of the House of Commons, an event amusingly described as 'the thin edge of the wedge of women's suffrage'. Interest in tea-shop waitresses subsequently peaked in 1908 when media-savvy members of the recently established Women's Freedom League helped transform the Piccadilly tea-shop strike into a cause celebre. Analysis of press archives relating to women's industrial militancy during the five years prior to 1911, indicates the Piccadilly strike as unique for suffragist involvement in a dispute between women workers and employers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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