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Shopgirls : the true story of life behind the counter
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- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1928407285#Topic/women_clerks_retail_trade
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1928407285#Topic/verkauferin
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1928407285#Place/grossbritannien
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1928407285#Topic/women_clerks_retail_trade_history
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- "BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY: POSTWAR, FROM C 1945 -. Shopgirls should be heroines, as celebrated as steelworkers in the Industrial Revolution. A million of us were shop assistants by the turn of the twentieth century and since then retail has grown exponentially to become Britain's largest area of economic activity. But the young women at the heart of this economic and cultural revolution, the shop assistants themselves, have largely been ignored. Shopgirls will tell the story of the lives of the girls who have worked behind the counters of our nation's shops from the drapery stores of the 1860s when young women's employment outside the home was taking off, through the Edwardian era's tumultuous social upheavals, two world wars and all the way to the working class revolution of the 1960s and the shock of the Biba bombing. This lively and ambitious book sets out to uncover the shopgirls' life stories, work cultures and economic contributions in a way never done before."
- "For the first time, SHOPGIRLS tells the story of the women who have served behind our counters, playing a vital and often ground-breaking part in our shared social history. We meet Selfridges' 'businesswomen', fighting for their good name, and arsonist suffragette Gladys Evans, jailed for standing up for her beliefs; join Margaret Bondfield as she goes undercover, fiercely championing the rights of the early shopgirls; and stand alongside the impoverished interwar chain store assistants who stole stockings to supplement their meagre wages."
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- "Shopgirls : the true story of life behind the counter"
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