Global Information Lookup Global Information

Mary Macarthur information


Mary Macarthur
Born
Mary Reid Macarthur

(1880-08-13)13 August 1880
Glasgow, Scotland
Died1 January 1921(1921-01-01) (aged 40)
Golders Green, London, England
Known forWomen's trade unionism and women's suffrage
SpouseWilliam Anderson

Mary Reid Anderson (née Macarthur; 13 August 1880 – 1 January 1921) was a Scottish suffragist (although at odds with the national groups who were willing to let a minority of women gain the franchise)[1][2] and was a leading trades unionist. She was the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and was involved in the formation of the National Federation of Women Workers and National Anti-Sweating League.[3]

In 1910, Macarthur led the women chain makers of Cradley Heath to victory in their fight for a minimum wage and led a strike to force employers to implement the rise.[4]

Around 1901, Macarthur became a trade unionist after hearing a speech made by John Turner about how badly some workers were being treated by their employers. She became secretary of the Ayr branch of the Shop Assistants' Union, and her interest in this union led to her work for the improvement of women's labour conditions. In 1902 Mary became friends with Margaret Bondfield who encouraged her to attend the union's national conference where Macarthur became the first woman[5] to be elected to the union's national executive.[6][7]

  1. ^ "Mary Macarthur". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Vellacott, Jo (1993). From Liberal to Labour with Women's Suffrage: The Story of Catherine Marshall. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 385. ISBN 0-7735-0958-5.
  4. ^ "Mary Reid MacArthur". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
  5. ^ Awcock, Hannah (6 April 2017). "Turbulent Londoners: Mary Macarthur, 1880-1921". Turbulent London. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Women in History of Scots Descent - Mary MacArthur". www.electricscotland.com.
  7. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Macarthur, Mary" . Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company.

and 24 Related for: Mary Macarthur information

Request time (Page generated in 1.2036 seconds.)

Mary Macarthur

Last Update:

Mary Reid Anderson (née Macarthur; 13 August 1880 – 1 January 1921) was a Scottish suffragist (although at odds with the national groups who were willing...

Word Count : 2514

Mary MacArthur

Last Update:

Mary MacArthur (January 20, 1904 – April 26, 1959) was a Canadian scientist who performed research on the principles of the successful dehydration and...

Word Count : 784

MacArthur Fellows Program

Last Update:

The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John...

Word Count : 6827

Douglas MacArthur

Last Update:

Douglas MacArthur was born 26 January 1880, at Little Rock Barracks in Arkansas, to Arthur MacArthur Jr., a U.S. Army captain, and his wife, Mary Pinkney...

Word Count : 28446

James MacArthur

Last Update:

James Gordon MacArthur (December 8, 1937 – October 28, 2010) was an American actor and recording artist. He had a long career in both movies and television...

Word Count : 2131

Mary Somerville

Last Update:

Mary Somerville (/ˈsʌmərvɪl/; née Fairfax, formerly Greig; 26 December 1780 – 29 November 1872) was a Scottish scientist, writer, and polymath. She studied...

Word Count : 5593

Mary Molony

Last Update:

Lancaster (29 September 1878 – 1 December 1921)(variously known as Dorothy, Mary, Dolly, Miss Maloney and Miss Molony, Moloney and O'Connor) was an Irish...

Word Count : 988

Macarthur family

Last Update:

(1861–1936) John Alexander Macarthur (1827–1904) Edward Hannibal Macarthur (1859–1947) m. Mary, née Wildash Annie Mary Macarthur (1866–1914) m. W. Bracker...

Word Count : 992

Arthur MacArthur III

Last Update:

man. Arthur and Mary MacArthur had five children, Arthur (1904–1912), Bowman McCalla, Douglas (named in honor of his brother), Mary Elizabeth, and Malcolm...

Word Count : 904

National Federation of Women Workers

Last Update:

unionism had to that time been unsuccessful. The Scottish suffragist Mary Macarthur played a key role throughout the NFWW's existence, leading campaigns...

Word Count : 2535

Elizabeth Macarthur

Last Update:

Elizabeth Macarthur (14 August 1766 – 9 February 1850) was an English-born landowner and businesswomen who was wife of John Macarthur. Elizabeth Macarthur was...

Word Count : 1242

Margaret Bondfield

Last Update:

committee. In 1902 Bondfield met Mary Macarthur, some eight years her junior, who chaired the Ayr branch of NAUSAWC. Macarthur, the daughter of a wealthy Scottish...

Word Count : 8573

Black Country Living Museum

Last Update:

activities in Cradley Heath. Re-erected at the museum it is a monument to Mary Macarthur and her campaign to establish a national minimum wage in the "sweated...

Word Count : 3899

Edwardian era

Last Update:

International journal of the history of sport 19#1 (2002): 31–56. Sarah Cosbey, Mary Lynn Damhorst, and Jane Farrell-Beck. "Diversity of daytime clothing styles...

Word Count : 8247

1918 United Kingdom general election

Last Update:

Manchester, Rusholme Alice Lucas, aged 65, Conservative, Lambeth, Kennington Mary Macarthur (Mrs W. C. Anderson), aged 38, Labour, Stourbridge, Worcestershire Violet...

Word Count : 2764

Charles MacArthur

Last Update:

Charles Gordon MacArthur (November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story...

Word Count : 758

Joyce Bulifant

Last Update:

husband was actor James MacArthur. They married on November 2, 1958, had two children together, Mary MacArthur and Charles MacArthur, and divorced in 1967...

Word Count : 1580

Julia Varley

Last Update:

involved in the Cradley Heath women chainmakers' strike of 1910, led by Mary Macarthur, and the Black Country strike of 1913, and later sat on the General...

Word Count : 1170

Adela Pankhurst

Last Update:

Adela Constantia Mary Walsh (née Pankhurst; 19 June 1885 – 23 May 1961) was a British born suffragette who worked as a political organiser for the Women's...

Word Count : 1593

Molly MacArthur

Last Update:

Florence Mary MacArthur (27 October 1893 – 12 January 1972), was an English artist and stage designer who also illustrated a number of books. Her work...

Word Count : 723

Golders Green

Last Update:

University, lived there. Michael McIntyre grew up in Golders Green. Mary Macarthur, women's rights campaigner, lived there. Louis Marks, television screenwriter...

Word Count : 2813

Helen Hayes

Last Update:

Helen Hayes MacArthur (née Brown; October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned 82 years. She eventually received the...

Word Count : 2979

Janie Allan

Last Update:

Mary Macarthur Agnes Syme Macdonald Florence Macfarlane Margaret Macfarlane Jenny McCallum Priscilla Bright McLaren Frances McPhun Margaret McPhun Mary Maloney...

Word Count : 1816

Independent Labour Party

Last Update:

Littlewood Margaret Llewelyn Davies Mary Macarthur Andrew MacLaren John Maclean Neil Maclean Fenton Macpherson Mary Macpherson Cecil Malone Caroline Martyn...

Word Count : 6259

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net