Is the Employment Rights Bill a step on the road to a better conditions for workers, or the limit of Labour's ambitions?

There's already been a lot of business push-back, so a clear worry is that rather than being a downpayment on a Labour led change for workers, its the whole thing.

However, if it is really is a first step & it Equality Impact Assessments (EIAs) start to inform policy, then Amy Brooker's hopes for workers may be fulfilled.

#gender #workers #feminism

https://www.progressivebritain.org/the-employment-rights-bill-a-bold-step-toward-building-a-feminist-future-of-work/

Something about the hype around #Damsel just rubs me the wrong way. The whole "this is no fairy tale" spin is annoying. Have you ever read more than two fairy tales in your life? I can list you hundreds of traditional stories where women kill monsters and save themselves. Seriously.

Quit shitting on folklore without knowing it.

Also, I recently heard the term "add a sword feminism" and it is very accurate.

#storytelling #folklore #StorytellingPSA #feminism

To fall is to be drawn to that which is beneath you. To fall is a condition, not an event.

#SaltIslandDiaries #historicalfiction #bookstodon #victoriana #Massachusetts #feminism

The textile factory girls of early 19th century #Massachusetts made a phenomenon of themselves during their own time by functionally converting the town of Lowell into a sprawling college campus for the working class.

Anyone who feels trapped in a brain-dead job ought to check out these factory workers.

Some articles about them are here: https://earlywithdrawal.net/victoriana/index.php/articles

#19thcentury #history #industrial #feminism #bookstodon #midjourney
@histodons

Loom and Spindle – Victoriana

At a time when people increasingly feel disempowered and without outlook, the "mill girls of Lowell" offer an inspiring story of human triumph in face of withering conditions.

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2064-d799-cfb1-993552020832

#capitalism #unions #industrial #feminism #midjourney #history #19thcentury #NewEngland #Massachusetts
@histodons

Thursday, 15 July 1847
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The humid air of the cape, which had overly embraced us to-day, began off the coast to consider greater ambitions. It would seek us out to-night for wet kisses and sudden discharges of electric energy. I feared for Ophelie in her barn loft, but reminded myself that the barn animals have always been safe there, and she would be as well.

#midjourney #bookstodon #HistoricalFiction #foreshadowing
#feminism #VictorianEra #Victoriana
#SaltIslandDiaries

I'm reading a book about the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra that was founded in 1940 (because women were generally not considered fit to be performing musicians in orchestras at the time). It is inspiring and fascinating, and goes on my "how is this not a prestige TV show yet?" list.

#bookstodon #AmReading #WomensHistory #music #feminism #books #Canada

https://secondstorypress.ca/adult/from-kitchen-to-carnegie-hall

https://earlywithdrawal.net/tolton/2022/06/22/the-salt-island-diaries/

#SaltIsland #Massachusetts #NewEngland #VictorianEra #feminism