Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trace unions in the British film and television industries

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dc.contributor.authorGalt, Frances C.
dc.contributor.editorArnold, Sarahen
dc.contributor.editorO'Brien, Anneen
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-29T09:38:41Z
dc.date.available2021-01-29T09:38:41Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the opportunities and obstacles of researching women’s trade union activism in the British film and television industries between 1933 and 2017. The surviving material on women’s union participation is incomplete and fragmented, and so my research has combined an examination of archival material—the union’s journal and the meeting minutes, correspondence and ephemera of three iterations of its equality committee—with new and existing oral history interviews. Sherry J. Katz has termed this methodological approach “researching around our subjects”, which involves “working outward in concentric circles of related sources” to reconstruct women’s experiences (90). While “researching around my subjects” was a challenging and time-consuming process, it was also a rewarding one, producing important insights into union activism as it relates to gender and breaking new ground in both women’s labour and women’s film and television history. This article concludes with a case study on the appointment of Sarah Benton as researcher for the ACTT’s Patterns report in 1973, revealing the benefits of this methodological approach in reconstructing events which have been effectively erased from the official record.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationGalt, F. C. (2021) 'Researching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trace unions in the British film and television industries ', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 20, pp. 166-188. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.12en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.20.12
dc.identifier.endpage165
dc.identifier.issn2009-4078
dc.identifier.issued20
dc.identifier.journalabbrevAlphavilleen
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage150
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10993
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue20/HTML/ArticleGalt.html
dc.rights© 2021, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectWomen’s labour historyen
dc.subjectTrade unionsen
dc.subjectBritish film and television industriesen
dc.subjectArchival researchen
dc.subjectOral historyen
dc.titleResearching around our subjects: Working towards a women’s labour history of trace unions in the British film and television industriesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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