Margaret Irwin (trade unionist)
Margaret Irwin FRSA | |
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Born | Margaret Hardinge Irwin 13 January 1858 Off the coast of Peru |
Died | 23 January 1940 Glasgow, Scotland | (aged 82)
Nationality | Scottish |
Alma mater | University of St Andrews |
Margaret Hardinge Irwin
Early life
Irwin was born on 13 January 1858[
Activism
In 1891, Irwin became the full-time Scottish organiser of the
Irwin was a founding member and secretary of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women's Suffrage. She was nominated by the association to attend the National Convention for the Civil Rights of Women, held in London on 16 and 17 October 1903. She resigned from this group in 1907, to join the more militant Women's Social and Political Union, and addressed the new Hillhead branch of the Women's Freedom League in 1908.[9]
Later life
By the 1920s, Irwin was focusing much of her time on the fruit farm, developing model housing for workers there. She was elected as a fellow of the
Publications
- Irwin, Margaret Hardinge (1888). The Employment of Women: Conditions of Work in some of the Textile Centres in the Western District of Scotland. Royal Commission on Labour.
- Irwin, Margaret Hardinge (1892). The Employment of Women: Conditions of Work in the Textile Industries of Glasgow and in the Calico Printing and Turkey Red Dying in the Vale of Leven. Royal Commission on Labour.
- Irwin, Margaret Hardinge (1893) The conditions of women's work in laundries : report of an inquiry conducted for the Council of the Women's Protective and Provident League of Glasgow.
- Irwin, Margaret Hardinge (1896) Women's industries in Scotland : read before the Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 18 March 1896. From the Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
- Irwin, Margaret Hardinge (1900) Home work amongst women : report of an inquiry conducted for the Glasgow Council for Women's Trades.
- Irwin, Margaret Hardinge & Smith, George Adam (1902) The problem of home work.
- Irwin, Margaret Hardinge (1918). Industrial housing from the housewife's point of view. Scottish Council for Women's Trades.
- Irwin, Margaret Hardinge (1910). The Housing of Potato Diggers. Scottish Council for Women's Trades & Union for the Abolition of Sweating.
References
- ScotlandsPeople. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ISBN 978-1845967352.
- ^ "Saltire Society Scotland Outstanding Women of Scotland Community - Margaret Hardinge Irwin". Archived from the original on 13 December 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54402. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "National Library of Scotland. Post Office Directory 1899 - 1900". Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "Corporation of Glasgow: Regulation of Home Work". Glasgow Herald: 3. 11 December 1900.
- ^ "County Currencies". Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald: 5. 14 December 1900.
- ^ "The Ethics of Shopping". The Kirkintilloch Herald: 8. 5 December 1900.
- ^ "Branch Notes- Hillhead Branch". Women's Freedom League. 20 February 1908. p. 392.