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

战前是一个重要的工业动荡时期，随着印刷品越来越被理解为成功鼓动的必要条件，激进媒体迅速扩张。《女工》是唯一一本为工人阶级妇女而不是中产阶级支持者撰写的妇女工会杂志。在新闻界，即使是更致力于性别平等的出版物，如《劳工领袖》，也假定女性不感兴趣，而是指示男性读者“不时”引导他们的“母亲或姐妹，妻子或甜心”到妇女专栏，《女工》提供了一个有价值的见解，以了解性别和阶级交叉点在激进媒体中的影响。

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.