IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0097 COLL MISC 0486
Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Title: British Association for the Advancement of Science: Committee on the Economic Effect of Legislation regulating Women's Labour
Date(s): 1896-1903
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 boxes
Name of creator(s): British Association for the Advancement of Science | Committee on the Economic Effect of Legislation regulating Women's Labour
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Committee on the economic effects of the legislation regulating women's labour was set up in 1900 and presented its final report in 1903. Its function was to investigate the operative effects of nineteenth century protective legislation on factory and workshop employment and on some aspects of outwork, and does not touch on any aspect of agricultural work or domestic service.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on the Economic Effect of Legislation regulating Women's Labour including:
Part 1. Minutes of Committees and reports, tracts, reviews and acts.
Statistics of the number women employed.
Reports of factory inspectors.
Part 2. Studies of the state of women's employment in London, Birmingham, Leicester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Sheffield and Shropshire.
Part 3. Women's employment in Scotland.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged by subject into four sections.
Conditions governing access:
OPEN
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APPLY TO ARCHIVIST
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Printed handlist available
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 8, 2002
Date(s) of descriptions: 8 May 2002; revised 20 May 2002