The Spaces of Working Class Women's Political Activism, 1966- 1992

该博士学位将对劳动地理学的子领域做出重大贡献，并加强当前围绕工人阶级妇女参与女权主义的历史辩论。20世纪60年代末至80年代中期是一个以激烈的工作场所战斗和工业斗争为标志的时期（Kelliher 2018）。这个时间框架也与英国妇女解放运动的出现相吻合（Littler,2021）。以前的学者试图将工人阶级妇女的劳资纠纷和妇女解放运动的政治斗争历史化，将这两种发展定位为独立和不相关的，在不同的空间展开。这种分离的影响是双重的。它不仅使工人阶级妇女在女权主义斗争中噤声（Moss 2019），而且意味着工人阶级妇女的劳资纠纷在历史劳动地理学领域仍未得到充分探讨（Girod, 2020）。这个项目将通过探索工人阶级妇女在工业集体行动中形成女权主义思想的空间来纠正这种情况。

This PhD will make a significant contribution to the sub-field of labour geographies as well as enhance current historical debates surrounding working-class women's engagement with feminism. The late 1960's to mid-1980's was a time marked by intense workplace militancy and industrial struggle (Kelliher 2018). This timeframe also coincided with the emergence of the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain (Littler,2021). Previous scholarly attempts to historicise both the industrial disputes of working-class women and the political struggles of the Women's Liberation Movement have positioned these two developments as separate and unconnected, unfolding in different spaces. The effect of this separation has been two-fold. It has not only silenced the voices of working-class women from feminist struggle (Moss 2019), but it has meant working-class women's industrial disputes remain overwhelmingly underexplored in the field of historical labour geography (Girod, 2020). This project will redress this situation by exploring the spaces through which working-class women in industrial collective action were formulating feminist ideas.