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5 Working roles ashore

Women ashore connected to the sea as dockers, relatives of mariners and members of the waterfront economy, including lighthouse keeping.

I have also included works on women canal workers in this list.


A. Docks and ports

Ayres, P. (1986) The Liverpool Docklands: Life and work in Athol Street. Liverpool: Liver Press.

Ayres, P. (1991) The Hidden Economy of Docklands Families: Liverpool in the 1930s. In: Hudson, P., Lee, W. R. (eds) Women’s Work and the Family Economy in Historical Perspective. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Bergholm, T., Teras, K. (1999) Female Dockers in Finland c1900-1975. International Journal of Maritime History; XI: 2, 107-120.

Bjorklund, A. (1977) Lathwood Lasses and Other Women Workers in the Harbours of Northern Sweden. (This single typescript copy was translated especially for the UK National Maritime Museum by Louis Mackay (NMM 656.61.0732.485 [folio]) and can be most usefully read in conjunction with the illustrated Swedish edition of the book, also available there.)

Clifford, M. L., Candace, J. (1995) Women who kept the Lights. Virginia: Cypress Communications.

Crane, Elaine Forman (1998) EbbTide in New England: Women, seaports and social change 1630-1800. Boston: Northeastern University Press.

Crawford, M. (1999) Deep Water. Bradford on Avon: Thomas Reed Publications.

Day, A. (1999) Women shipbuilders: the forgotten "mateys": women workers in Portsmouth Dockyard. Women and The Sea Newsletter; 3, spring, 1.

Day, A. (1999) (with co-editor Pritchard, G.) (1999) Staying Afloat: Recollections of Portsmouth Dockyard 1950 to the Present Day. History Research Centre, University of Portsmouth.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Kverndal, R. (2000) Women on the Waterfront: The Status and Roles of Women in Seafarers Mission from a Historical and Cultural perspective, Maritime Mission Studies. The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Maritime Mission. 2: spring, 17-32.

Liverpool Women's History - Women's Lives, Second Chance to Learn Group (1988) Women's York on the Waterfront 1916-1987. Liverpool: Harrison Jones School.

McCreery, C. (2000) True blue and black, brown and fair: prints of British sailors and their women during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies; 23: 2, 135-152. (British Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies.)

Mitford, J. (1988) Grace had an English Heart. London: Viking Penguin.

Morris, R. (1985) The Captain's Lady. London: Chatto and Windus.

Slade, M. (1996) History of the Female Shipwright. Woodbridge, Connecticut: Research Publications (available on microfilm at the National Maritime Museum, UK).

Stanley, J. (1999) 'Women on the Waterfront'. Together (magazine for women in the Transport and General Workers' Union). Spring.

Stanley, J. (2000-01) Liverpool's women dockers. North West Labour History; 25, 2-14.

Weston, A. (1913) My Life Among The Blue-Jackets. London: James Nisbet.


B. Inland waterways

Freer, W. (1995) Women and Children of the Cut. Mold, Wales: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 0901461180.

Small, D. Wonderful World of Waterways: Women on Wartime Canals. See Doug Small's website

 

Stewart, S. (1993) Ramlin Rose: The Boatwoman's Story. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0192123262.