The Newer Eve

CHRISTINE COLLETTE is a freelance scholar and lives in France. This, her seventh book, completes her study of women and the Labour movement that began with For Labour and For Women (Manchester University Press, 1989). The route led through trades unionism, a Labour Party parliamentary candidature, teaching General Studies to engineers and History and Women's Studies to graduates and undergraduates at Edge Hill University, where she became Reader in Class and Gender Studies.

List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: REPRESENTATION: THE WOMEN'S LABOUR LEAGUE Foundation of the Women's Labour League Consolidation of the Women's Labour League Enid Stacy, Marion Barry, Clarice McNab Shaw PART II: WAR: THE STANDING JOINT COMMITTEE First World War The Standing Joint Committee in the Inter War Years Bronwen Tall Brittain, Florence Davy and Mary Sutherland International Organization Irene Wagner and Ellen Wilkinson War and Post War PART III: THE SECOND WAVE: THE NATIONAL JOINT COMMITTEE The National Joint Committee from the 1960s The National Joint Committee in the 1980s Joining the Parliamentary Road Conclusion Bibliography Index