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364: 305: 83:, this new mission proved more successful, with more than one hundred trades investigated. Most research was conducted in London, but some in other British cities. Hicks and James objected to the research focus and finally left in 1908, but many other women, later to become prominent, became involved. They included 71:. However, its membership soon began to fall, and it was refounded as the "Women's Industrial Council" in 1894, with a focus on investigating and reporting on the conditions under which women worked. 424: 104: 179: 429: 127: 444: 434: 405: 80: 348: 100: 439: 135: 60: 449: 252: 398: 24:) was a British organisation active from 1894 to about 1917, promoting the interests of women at work. 379: 322: 226: 341: 92: 48:
of women's trade unions, with early affiliates including the East London Ropemakers' Union, led by
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Index

Clementina Black
East End of London
federation
Amie Hicks
Clara James
Social Democratic Federation
John Burns
Tom Mann
Catherine Webb
Margaret Bondfield
Ishbel Gordon
Elizabeth Leigh Hutchins
Mary Macarthur
Margaret MacDonald
Lucy Wyatt Papworth
Louise Eates
World War I
British Library of Political and Economic Science
Trades Union Congress
London Metropolitan University





"Women's Industrial Council (act. 1894–c.1917)"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
UK public library membership
"Women's Industrial Council"
"Pendant"

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