Research Catalog

Title

The woman with the basket : the history of the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1883-1927 / by Catherine Webb.

Author

Webb, Catherine, 1859-1947

Publication

• [London] : [Women's Co-operative Guild], 1927.
• Manchester : Co-operative Wholesale Society's Printing Works

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davies, Margaret Llewelyn, 1861-1944
• Bone, Muirhead, Sir, 1876-1953
• Women's Co-operative Guild, publisher.
• C.W.S. Printing Works, printer.

Description

1 preliminary leaf, 205 pages, 1 leaf, 17 unnumbered pages of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits; 19 cm

Subject

• Women's Co-operative Guild
• Women's Co-operative Guild > History
• Co-operative Women's Guild
• Geschichte 1883-1927
• Cooperation > Great Britain
• Cooperation > Societies, etc
• Cooperation
• Kooperation > Storbritannien
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Published by the Women's Co-operative Guild, 29, Winchester Road, Hampstead, London, N.W.3."--Page [1].
• Frontispiece illustration signed: Muirhead Bone.
• Includes foreword by Margaret Llewelyn Davies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-180).

Contents

The beginnings -- Principles and organisation -- Education -- Opening doors -- Some Co-operative activities -- Co-operation in poor neighbourhoods -- Citizenship campaigns -- Interest in industry -- The minimum wage campaign -- National care of maternity -- The war years and after -- Finance and festivals -- The stand for self-government -- Politics in the guild room -- World-wide co-operation -- The written word -- The convalescent fund -- A summary of recent history -- Appendix.

LCCN

l 27000424

OCLC

• ocm03645985
• 3645985
• SCSB-232143

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library