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Women's Work

Working class girls, from north Sheffield, were expected to work to make ends meet. It was customary for their mothers to find them their first job. They were mainly employed in low paid jobs like domestic, clerical or shop work or unskilled factory work.

In the 1980s women were often the main breadwinners in households, despite having part-time and poorly paid jobs.

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Bassets beauties - select to see a larger image

Image reproduced by kind permission of Sue Graves.

Cadbury Trebor Bassets, known mainly for manufacturing liquorice allsorts, is a major local employer of women from north Sheffield. The workers were known as the Bassets Beauties, pictured here in 1963.

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