For life was made for joy not woe': the literature and politics of the Woman Worker

战前时期是一个重要的工业动荡时期，随着印刷越来越被认为是成功鼓动的关键，激进媒体迅速扩张。《女工》是独一无二的，因为它是第一本，也是当时唯一一本为工人阶级女性而不是中产阶级支持者撰写的女性工会杂志。在这样一个媒体环境中，即使是像《工党领袖》这样更致力于性别平等的出版物也认为女性不感兴趣，而是指示男性读者“时不时地”把他们的“母亲或姐妹、妻子或甜心”引导到女性专栏上。《女工》为性别和阶级在激进媒体中的交叉影响提供了宝贵的见解。

The pre-war period was one of significant industrial unrest, which saw a rapid expansion of the radical press as print was increasingly understood to be essential to successful agitation.The Woman Worker was unique in this proliferation as the first, and at the time only, women's trade union magazine written for, and often by, working class women rather than their middle class supporters. In a press landscape where even publications more committed to gender equality such as the Labour Leader assumed female disinterest, instead instructing the male reader to direct their 'mother or sister, wife or sweet-heart' to the women's column 'from time to time', the Woman Worker provides a valuable insight into the impacts of intersections of gender and class in the radical press.