1. For one of the few commentaries that does problemitize ‘the complexities of feminism and Labour’s response’, see Martin Francis, ‘Labour and Gender’, in Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane and Nick Tiratsoo (eds), Labour’s First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
2. Matthew Worley, ‘Building the Labour Party: Labour Party Activities in Five British Counties between the Wars’, Labour History Review, 70(1), 2005, p. 78. Worley’s opinion is that continuing male dominance prevented success in other areas. Martin Francis, ‘Labour and Gender’ op. cit. asks why women succeeded in the field of welfare but not that of equal pay.
3. Worley, op. cit., p. 75. Cf. Steven Fielding and Duncan Tanner, ‘The “rise of the Left” Revisited: Labour Party Culture in Post-War Manchester and Salford’, Labour History Review, 7(3) 2006, p. 215; ‘Labour was a very masculine organisation, with many local parties being managed by male cliques’.
4. Henry Pelling, The Origins of the Labour Party (Oxford University Press, 1963).
5. Lucy Middleton (ed.), Women in the Labour Movement (Medwood Burn, 1977).