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Mary Macarthur 1880-1921 The Working Woman’s Champion. In 1921 the brilliant and charismatic trade union leader, Mary Macarthur, died aged 40. In her short life, her activism and leadership had been responsible for raising awareness of women’s poor working conditions and encouraging them to speak out against injustice and inequality.
30 de dez. de 2020 · Righting the Wrong: Mary Macarthur 1880–1921 - The Working Woman’s Champion by Cathy Hunt, Alcester, West Midlands History, 2019, 194 pp., Illustrations. £20, ISBN 978-1-90503-668-4 David J. A. Hallam Independent Scholar
9 de fev. de 2022 · Mary Macarthur was an extraordinary woman, described by one contemporary as ‘a wholehearted fighter for economic and political justice’ and another as as ‘one of the pioneer women of the movement who has done more than any other woman I know of for the emancipation of her sex’. Born 13th August 1880. Died 1 January 1921.
Mary Macarthur 1880-1921 The Working Woman’s Champion In 1921 the brilliant and charismatic trade union leader, Mary Macarthur, died aged 40. In her short life, her activism and leadership had been responsible for raising awareness of women’s poor working conditions and encouraging them to speak out against injustice and inequality.
Mary died aged 40 at her home in Golders Green, London, on January 1 1921. That year’s Trades Union Congress, meeting at Cardiff in September, paid fulsome tribute to Mary Macarthur who was described as ‘our greatest woman trade unionist’. Mary Macarthur’s name lives on today through two organisations.
8 de jun. de 2012 · Mary MacArthur (1880-1921), Scottish suffragist. She was General Secretary of the Women’s Trade Union League and helped form the National Federation of Women Workers and the Anti-Sweating League. She led the women chainworkers of Cradley Heath in a ten week strike in 1910, which resulted in a minmum wage and transformed their lives.
20 de fev. de 2019 · Family secrets. The life of trade unionist Mary Macarthur, who is now the subject of a folk opera. Gender pay inequalities in UK nursing. Presented by Jenni Murray.
