Amy Eliza Hurlston (1865–1949) was a British journalist, editor, social campaigner and trade unionist.
[2] She was a member of the Women’s Trade Union League,[8] and was a Coventry Poor Law Guardian.
[10] Hurlston raised issues women experienced in saving for their future pension provision, including: low wages, marriage, intermittent employment (for example needing to stop working due to the home duties of raising children or caring for other family members and seasonal fluctuations), and life expectancy.
[8] She shared how servants in the Midlands were paid about two or three shillings a week, which was not enough to allow them to join a friendly society, let alone save for the future.
[11] Hurlston was also an early member of the Women’s Emancipation Union,[1] an organisation founded by her friend Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme-Elmy,[12] and presented a paper to the annual conference held on 16 March 1893 titled The Factory Work of Women in the Midlands.