Reference number
  • AYW
Date
  • 1900-1918
Level
  • Collection
Description
  • This collection includes: photocopies and notes; 'The Asylum News' Vol X; Secretaries Report Book.
Extent
  • 1 file
Admin history
  • The Asylum Workers' Association was founded in 1895 "to promote the interests and welfare of Asylum Nurses and Attendants, and of others engaged in nursing the insane, and thereby improve their professional status in the nursing world". It still existed in 1918. The AWA was ousted by the National Asylum Workers' Union (NAWU) and Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union.
Appraisal
  • The collection has been weeded for duplicates.
Access status
  • Open
Related Material
  • See also National Asylum Workers' Union / Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers' Union; COHSE and the Hospitals and Welfare Services Union (MSS.229).
Subject
  • Hospitals
  • Psychiatric hospitals-- Staff-- Labor unions-- Great Britain