'One Can Only Guess What Might Have Happened if the Worker Had Not Intervened in Time': the Liverpool Vigilance Association, moral vulnerability and Irish girls in early- to mid-twentieth-century Liverpool



Caslin, Samantha ORCID: 0000-0001-5802-6543
(2016) 'One Can Only Guess What Might Have Happened if the Worker Had Not Intervened in Time': the Liverpool Vigilance Association, moral vulnerability and Irish girls in early- to mid-twentieth-century Liverpool. WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW, 25 (2). pp. 254-273.

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Abstract

In early- and mid-twentieth century Britain, members of the Liverpool Vigilance Association (LVA) unofficially policed those who entered Liverpool's port and railway stations. The organisation feared that Irish female newcomers in particular lacked the social wherewithal necessary to maintain their perceived purity within a city such as Liverpool. Whilst the supposed innocence of Irish women was a respectable quality, the LVA believed it also made them vulnerable to exploitation. Consequently the young, Irish, female traveller was central to Liverpudlian social purists' notions of urban moral danger and their belief in the importance of preventative patrol work.

Item Type: Article
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 03 Nov 2016 10:22
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2023 07:26
DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1039351
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3004275