'Pull No More Bines'. An oral history of East London women hop pickers

Details:

Author(s) O'Neill, Gilda
Publication type Monograph
Year published 1990
Pages 164pp
Publisher Women's Press
Place Published London

Topics:

Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
Name Oral history

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

Records memories of East London hop pickers, mostly women. Structured in two parts, the latter being 'On reflection - oral history' [pp139-58]. Other chapters include: 'The women and why they picked'; 'The day's work'; 'The weekends'; 'Religion, missionaries and social control'; 'The importance of being together'; 'Changes - it was different then'