Women's Trade Union League (United Kingdom)

The Women's Trade Union League, founded in 1874 and briefly known as the Women's Protective and Provident League, was a British trade union for women workers. It was established by Emma Paterson, who had seen unions managed by working women in America.^[1]

References

1. Gordon, Peter; Doughan, David (2001). "Women's Trade Union League". Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825–1960. London & Portland, Or.: Woburn Press. pp. 184–5. ISBN 0-7130-0223-9.

Further reading

• Christine Bolt (2014). The Women's Movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s. Routledge. p. 359.
• Jacoby, Robin Miller. "Feminism and Class Consciousness in the British and American Women's Trade Union Leagues, 1890-1925." in Liberating Women's History ed. Berenice Carroll (University of Illinois Press, 1976) pp: 137-60.