British Association for the Advancement of Science: Committee on the Economic Effect of Legislation regulating Women's Labour

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 COLL MISC 0486
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full 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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged by subject into four sections.

Conditions governing access:

OPEN

Conditions governing reproduction:

APPLY TO ARCHIVIST

Finding aids:

Printed handlist available

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 8, 2002

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
8 May 2002; revised 20 May 2002