The Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries (AWCS) was a British trade union from 1912 to 1941.
The union formed in 1903 as the Association of Shorthand Writers and Typists and changed its name in 1912 to AWCS.
[1] It grew, partly because of World War I, from fewer than 900 members in 1916 to around 8000 in 1920.
[2] Anne Godwin joined the union in 1920 and became its main organizer in 1928.
[1][4] Records of the AWCS are kept in the London Metropolitan University's Trades Union Congress Library Collections.