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Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion
This article explores the history of women’s activism within the state apparatus, focusing on women labour inspectors in interwar Poland. Part of the State Labour Inspectorate since its creation in 1919, women inspectors often combined their professional duties with a distinctly activist stance. Lik...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10478397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38013806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2023.2227516 |
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description | This article explores the history of women’s activism within the state apparatus, focusing on women labour inspectors in interwar Poland. Part of the State Labour Inspectorate since its creation in 1919, women inspectors often combined their professional duties with a distinctly activist stance. Like their male colleagues, they ensured compliance with labour legislation by performing factory visits and collecting information on the conditions of workers’ lives and labour. But they also led campaigns in the press, published books and brochures intended to mobilize public opinion around issues related to the labour of women and minors, and sought to build activist networks aimed at the improvement of women workers’ conditions. They exposed particularly exploitative labour arrangements, such as the labour of underage apprentices, and conceptualized them as urgent social problems. These multiple engagements meant that women labour inspectors moved between different scales of action including direct intervention on the shop floor, research and publications aimed at a national audience, and transnational contacts with the International Labour Organization, which had been committed to improving women workers’ conditions since its inception. |
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spelling | pubmed-104783972023-09-06 Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion Popova, Zhanna J Contemp Cent East Eur Special Issue Articles This article explores the history of women’s activism within the state apparatus, focusing on women labour inspectors in interwar Poland. Part of the State Labour Inspectorate since its creation in 1919, women inspectors often combined their professional duties with a distinctly activist stance. Like their male colleagues, they ensured compliance with labour legislation by performing factory visits and collecting information on the conditions of workers’ lives and labour. But they also led campaigns in the press, published books and brochures intended to mobilize public opinion around issues related to the labour of women and minors, and sought to build activist networks aimed at the improvement of women workers’ conditions. They exposed particularly exploitative labour arrangements, such as the labour of underage apprentices, and conceptualized them as urgent social problems. These multiple engagements meant that women labour inspectors moved between different scales of action including direct intervention on the shop floor, research and publications aimed at a national audience, and transnational contacts with the International Labour Organization, which had been committed to improving women workers’ conditions since its inception. Routledge 2023-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10478397/ /pubmed/38013806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2023.2227516 Text en © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
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title | Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion |
title_full | Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion |
title_fullStr | Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion |
title_full_unstemmed | Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion |
title_short | Polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion |
title_sort | polish women labour inspectors between the world wars: scrutinizing the workplace and mobilizing public opinion |
topic | Special Issue Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10478397/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38013806 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2023.2227516 |
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