The pre-First World War British women’s suffrage revolt and labour unrest: never the twain shall meet?

Darlington, Ralph

doi:10.1080/0023656x.2020.1836612

Labor History

2020

DOI: 10.1080/0023656x.2020.1836612

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The pre-First World War British women’s suffrage revolt and labour unrest: never the twain shall meet?

Ralph Darlington

Abstract: This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).

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Women's Suffrage, Political Economy, and the Transatlantic Birth Strike Movement, 1911–1920

Shew

2022

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The first two decades of the twentieth century saw the development of a meaningful transnational movement to employ birth strikes in the fight for women's rights. In an Anglo-American context, this movement was intimately tied to the women's suffrage campaign. It was led by a network of suffragists, Neo-Malthusians, and birth control campaigners who shared literary and personal ties which allowed their ideas to criss-cross the Atlantic between 1911 and 1920. Although the transatlantic birth strike was never implemented on a significant scale, explaining its almost total absence within existing historiography, this article uses a gendered intellectual history framework to piece together the ideas behind the movement which, the article argues, disrupt established understanding of Neo-Malthusianism and socialist-feminism within intellectual histories. Support for birth striking was predicated on faith in the power of working-class collective action, scrutiny of the economic exploitation of both productive and ‘reproductive’ workers, and a corresponding mistrust in the efficacy of state involvement with these issues. The birth strikers wove together strands from collectivist, individualist, socialist, and feminist thought, undermining traditional historiographical depictions of binaries between socialism and suffragism and collectivism and individualism in early twentieth-century political thought.

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Women's Suffrage, Political Economy, and the Transatlantic Birth Strike Movement, 1911–1920

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Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt

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The pre-First World War British women’s suffrage revolt and labour unrest: never the twain shall meet?

Abstract: This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).

Cited by 3 publications

References 64 publications

Women's Suffrage, Political Economy, and the Transatlantic Birth Strike Movement, 1911–1920

Women's Suffrage, Political Economy, and the Transatlantic Birth Strike Movement, 1911–1920

Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-1914 British labour revolt

Author’s response to “ Labor History Symposium : Ralph Darlington, Labour Revolt in Britain, 1910-1914”

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