Shopgirls: The True Story of Life Behind the Counter
SERIES 1 - 1. HERE COME THE GIRLS
BBC Two Tue 24th June 9pm - 9:59pm
Repeat: BBC Two (not Scotland) Wed 2 Jul 11:20pm
Repeat: BBC Two Scotland Wed 2 Jul 12:20am 1/3. Social historian Pamela Cox charts the journey of female shopworkers over the past 150 years, from almost invisible figures in stark Victorian stores, to being at the heart of the UK's retail revolution. She begins with the mid-19th century, when shops up and down the land were owned and staffed by men, and reveals how women's groups promoted female employment and tried to overcome the notion that shopwork was somehow unladylike. Pamela also lifts the lid on the working conditions and realities of life for women, many of whom lived above the shops and the new department stores.
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