Emma Ihrer

Emma Ihrer was a German feminist and trade unionist who was active in founding societies to defend the rights of women workers.

Emma Ihrer was born at a time when women were disenfranchised, and under the reactionary Prussian Association law of 1850 were forbidden participation in political associations. The authorities could define political as they chose. In October 1878 the first of the AntiSocialist Laws arbitrarily deprived members of the Social Democratic Party and those associated with it of the right of association. It was not until the Association Act ofMay 1908 that women were allowed to take part in political activities and organisations. Working women faced opposition from working men, who saw them as unwelcome competition, as well as from the authoritarian state which denied them basic civil rights.

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