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Clara Grace James (30 October 1866 – 10 August 1954) was a British trade unionist. Born in Deptford, then in Kent, James's parents died when she was young, and she was brought up by a former employee of her father. She found work making confectionery, and in 1889 she joined the Women's Trade Union Association (WTUA). As a result, she was sacked from her job, but the WTUA helped her find work as a typist, while she volunteered as an organiser and assistant secretary of the WTUA. Its activist Amie Hicks provided her with accommodation and legally adopted James as her daughter. Through the WTUA, James founded the Confectioners' Union, and served as its general secretary. She worked with Clementina Black and John Burns to win a strike among chocolate makers in 1890, but the union faced high levels of opposition from employers and a highly mobile workforce, leading to its decline and dissolution in 1892. Thereafter, James focused her efforts on trying to organise box-makers. Lilian Gilchrist Thompson paid the WTUA £70 a year for two years to employ James as an investigator. James and Hicks were the only two women to give evidence to the 1891 Royal Commission on Labour. James also served as a delegate to the London Trades Council, and for a time was the only woman to do so. The WTUA was refounded in 1894 as the Women's Industrial Council (WIC), and James remained active within it, serving on both its investigation and organisation committees. However, with her sponsorship having concluded, Thompson instead paid for her training as a gymnastics teacher. Once she had completed this, James set up a series of "Working Girls' Clubs", providing lectures, physical drills, social meetings and citizenship classes. These proved popular, and in 1899 the WIC founded the Clubs Industrial Association to formalise this activity. Among the young women who attended her classes was Margaret Bondfield. James eventually left the Clubs Industrial Association, founding the rival Working Girls at Play organisation, which by 1909 organised 22 regular clubs across London. She began suffering from poor health and had to give up teaching, retiring to Canvey Island. There, she served as a parish councillor, and ran a holiday home for working girls from London. References. Discover the Clara James popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Clara James books.
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The Escort Next Door
Clara JamesJulia has the seemingly perfect family; a successful husband and three wonderful kids. From the outside all seems well, but behind closed doors things are anything but ordinary. Ju...
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Her Last Love Affair
Clara JamesAllie Mclaren is a workaholic who resists having fun during her off time. That is until she gets the worst news of her life. Determined to change, Allie decides to dig up her past ...
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Spicy Romantic Short Stories
Clara James~4 Book Box Set~Book 1: Clara James – “The Escort Next Door”Julia has the seemingly perfect family; a successful husband and three wonderful kids. From the outside all seems well, ...
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Dangerous Deception at Honeychurch Hall
Hannah Dennison'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. BeatonAll's fair in love . . . and antiques wars!Things are going well for Kat Stanford; not only is her antiques business thriving, ...
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Tortured Artists
Christopher Zara & Robbie LeeGreat art comes from great pain.Or that's the impression left by these haunting profiles. Pieced together, they form a revealing mosaic of the creative mind. It's like viewing an e...
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Letters from Black America
Pamela NewkirkLetters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the pantheon of African American experience in the most intimate way possiblethrough the heartfelt cor...
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Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends
Dr Catie GilchristMurder, manslaughter, suicide, mishap the very public business of determining death in colonial Sydney. Murder in colonial Sydney was a surprisingly rare occurrence, so when it di...
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His Royal Passion
Geneva LeeDie große Liebesgeschichte von Clara und Alexander neu erzählt aus Sicht des verführerischen Kronprinzen.Prinz Alexander liegt die Welt zu Füßen. Er ist jung, gutaussehend und der ...
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Sexy Romance Short Stories
Clara James4 Book MultiAuthor Box SetBook 1: Clara James – “Her Last Love Affair”Allie has been a workaholic during her young professional career. She has not taken part in the everyday satis...
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Scandals of Classic Hollywood
Anne Helen PetersenCelebrity gossip meets history in this compulsively readable collection from Buzzfeed reporter Anne Helen Peterson. This guide to film stars and their deepest secrets is sure ...
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The New Beginnings Bridal Boutique
Kellie Hailes'You know for an owner of a bridal shop you're awfully cynical about marriage.'As the owner of a secondhand bridal boutique in the little village of Alfriston, Paige Alby has seen ...
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Nightfall
Richard B. WrightFrom the acclaimed writer of the beloved Clara Callan comes a memorable new novel about first loves, loveafterlove, and the end of things, set during summer in Quebec City.James Hi...
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Matter Clara Marcatante Et Al. v. James A. Lundy Et Al.
Court of Appeals of New YorkUpon the appeal of Clara Marcatante and others: Order reversed on the dissenting memorandum below. No opinion.
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How to Mend a Broken Heart
Katey LovellWhen you know how, you can make anything from scratch, including a new life after love...When Leanne and Richard bought a dilapidated old seaside cottage to renovate together as th...