Special Collections Catalogue

Winning Equal Pay: The Value of Women's Work 

Strike meeting outside Morton's factory, 1914

Winning Equal Pay: the Value of Women's Work is part of The Union Makes Us Strong website and was a partnership initiative between London Metropolitan University and the Trades Union Congress to record the long campaign to achieve equal pay for women.

This learning resource was supported by the European Social Fund EQUAL Programme and includes Teachers' Notes and a Unionlearn Tutors' Pack. 

Choose your pathway into the website by clicking any of the options below to find filmed interviews with women who fought for and won equal pay, hundreds of digitised images and documents from the TUC Library Collections, plus contributions from historians and other experts.  

Voices from the Workplace

View, listen and read about the experiences of equal pay campaigners.

Images & Documents

View a selection of photographs, posters and documents about the fight for equal pay from the 19th century to today

The Road to Equality

Read and explore the issue of the value of women's work through the contributions of historians and other experts

Links to other resources

Here are some links to other resources you may be interested in visiting.

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Equality and Human Rights Commission
The Women's Library
Modern Records Centre

The launch of the equal pay archive at Warwick's Modern Records Centre is discussed in a podcast available on the Modern Records Centre website.

Many British trade unions will have useful material relating to Equal Pay and other equalities issues on their website eg. UNISON Women's National Commission

Credits 

Images shown here are from original documents held in the TUC Library Collections at the London Metropolitan University.

The University wishes to thank their project partners, the Trades Union Congress and the European Union, European Social Fund for their financial support.

The Project Team

TUC Librarian - Christine Coates
Project Manager - Keri A. Myers
Project Advisors - Mary Hartley, Julie Howell, Jo Morris, David Nath, and Mike O'Reilly
Road to Equality - Sarah Boston, Mary Davis, Sue Hastings, Aileen McColgan, Jo Morris, and Jill Rubery
Film Makers - Sarah Boston and Jenny Morgan
Background Notes - Sue Hastings and Adina Batnitzky
Transcription - H.Dayton, M.Hardy, and M.WongImage Captions Christine Coates and James Goddard
Tutor's Pack - David James
Teachers' Pack - Andrew Miller
Project Digitisation - Steve Blunt (Media Centre, London Metropolitan University)
Video Encoding - Mark Sydserff (Media Services, London Metropolitan University)
Design and content management - Attic media Ltd and KE Software (UK) Ltd