International Labour Conference, Eighteenth Session
This session of the ILC included several women participants from Central and Eastern Europe. Marie Krausová (workers' adviser from Czechoslovakia), Eugenia Waśniewska (workers' adviser from Poland), and Milena Atanatskovitch (government adviser from Yugoslavia) were members of the Night Work and Underground Work Conference Committees.
During this conference, the sole discussion of night work for women took place, as well as the first discussion of women's underground work in mines.
Full text of the conference proceedings is available here.
Women’s Labour Activism
in Eastern Europe and Transnationally,
From the Age of Empires
to the Late 20th Century
This research project, led by Susan Zimmermann at Central European University (Vienna, Austria), has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 833691 – ZARAH).