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exoolator Free time for leisure was indeed scarce. When whole families workca from dawn il dusk tne ten-nour day was a massive victory for every Pure But we must also remembe that the labour movement at this time was extremely dominated even the interna. Hoi n pour movemeni that the leaders of such movements cannot have avoided being fuenced by the prevailing morality which promoted a vision ¡culac as bure ara alvite. desoiu the high levels of prostitution at that time.
The covering of the ankles of •RIeS oset arme roons was one of the more absurd ex. amples of the prevailing morality.
Many or the poorest women workers opposed the of any protective lecisiation. Ther Oie Friuls GINNY trained in 1976 as a carpenter on à government TOPS course where she and another woman were the only females with two hundred men. In the Directory of Social Change WOMEN she recounts a job interview she had with a local council after she had completed her •I had this kind of dialogue with the interviewer:
Him: Do you realise that in repair and maintenance, we spend a lot of time repairing men's urinals; that would Me: What do you do when you're preparing the Him: We hang a sign on the door saying 'men workMe: Don't you think you can put up a sign saying Him: You'll have to carry heavy weights and it's not Me: I know it's hard, but I know it doesn't happen very often. Besides I want the job and I know I am a Him: Listen, dear, I'm not trying to put you off but you will have to carry your tools around..? Taken from the Directory of Social Change WOMEN rightly saw that it would restrict their earning power, them from higher Women's Protection and Provident League considered the 'an intringement on women's liberties and prejudicial to their opporTes o eu soi uchl Women realised that by going out to work they economic independence gave i em master t01 the means by which they could raise their status in society and parand ticipate in the working class moveHicil Kicked The Open Door Movement, set up in Berlin in 1929, after women had been kicked out of 'male jobs' following the First World War, was also against any special protection tion of workers should be governed introduction by the nature of the job rather than the sex of the worker. Otherwise wre scats alfier wi were wed