Women Workers In The First World War

Author : Gail Braybon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136248665

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Women Workers in the First World War by Gail Braybon Pdf

Commentators writing soon after the outbreak of the First World War about the classic problems of women’s employment (low pay, lack of career structure, exclusion from "men’s jobs") frequently went on to say that the war had "changed all this", and that women’s position would never be the same again. This book looks at how and why women were employed, and in what ways society’s attitudes towards women workers did or did not change during the war. Contrary to the mythology of the war, which portrayed women as popular workers, rewarded with the vote for their splendid work, the author shows that most employers were extremely reluctant to take on women workers, and remained cynical about their performance. The book considers attitudes towards women’s work as held throughout society. It examines the prejudices of government, trade unions and employers, and considers society’s views about the kinds of work women should be doing, and their "wider role" as the "mothers of the race". First published in 1981, this is an important book for anyone interested in women’s history, or the social history of the twentieth century. Companion volumes, Women Workers in the Second World War by Penny Summerfield, and Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars by Gail Braybon and Penny Summerfield, are also published by Routledge.

Author : Gail Braybon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0415042011

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Women Workers in the First World War by Gail Braybon Pdf

Author : Carrie Brown
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555535356

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Rosie's Mom by Carrie Brown Pdf

This book restores to history the lives of American women involved in war work during World War I.

Author : Gail Braybon
Publisher : London : Croom Helm ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Labor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081165438

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Women Workers in the First World War by Gail Braybon Pdf

The First World War brought women into the British labour force in a way that had never been previously possible. Before the War, it was assumed that women would leave work on marriage and that domestic work, husbands and children would become their full-time preoccupation. Paid work was not supposed to be important to them, as it was only temporary and they were not expected to be interested in finding work with higher wages or a career structure. However, the War conditions demanded that more women be recruited for industrial work and many women left domestic service, the traditional 'women's trades' or unpaid housework to take up jobs.

Author : Maurine Weiner Greenwald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801497337

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Women, War, and Work by Maurine Weiner Greenwald Pdf

Author : Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136247262

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Women Workers in the Second World War by Penny Summerfield Pdf

The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme caution, in spite of the desperate need for women’s labour in war work. Women’s own preferences were frequently neglected or distorted in the search for a compromise between production and patriarchy. However, the enduring practices of paying women less and treating them as an inferior category of workers led to growth in the numbers and proportions of women employed after the war in many areas of work. Penny Summerfield concludes that the war accelerated the segregation of women in 'inferior' sectors of work, and inflated the expectation that working women would bear the double burden without a redistribution of responsibility for the domestic sphere between men, women and the state. First published in 1984, this is an important book for students of history, sociology and women’s studies at all levels.

Author : Maurine Greenwald
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980-12-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313213557

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Women, War, and Work by Maurine Greenwald Pdf

Author : Angela Woollacott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520085022

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On Her Their Lives Depend by Angela Woollacott Pdf

This book examines the experience of women munitions workers in Britain during WW1.

Author : Ute Daniel
Publisher : Continnuum-3PL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015039881225

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The War from Within by Ute Daniel Pdf

This important translation looks at World War I from the perspective of German working-class women. The author demonstrates the intimate connection between 'general' social history and women's history while analyzing the dynamics between these different levels of interpretation. She asks: - How did women view the war and whom did they hold responsible for it? - How did military leaders and politicians perceive women at work, in the home, and on the streets? This book explores the ways in which the people themselves interpreted their world and their lives -- a perspective often neglected by historians but one becoming increasingly relevant in Germany today. Essential reading for all those interested in War Studies, German Studies, History and Women's Studies and an excellent text for course use.

Author : E. M. Delafield
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547167785

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The War-Workers by E. M. Delafield Pdf

This story is set in England during World War I and revolves around Miss Vivian, a 29-year-old woman. In this novel, Miss Vivian is the Director of the Midland Supply Depôt. She lives with her parents at their rural estate 'Plessings'. It is to be admired that Vivian, who has never done a day's work in her life, has a tenacious spirit that propels her in organizing, supervising and directing the Midlands Supply Depot with great efficiency. Meanwhile across the street the 'war girls' live in a very overcrowded hostel, here they share rooms with hardly any hot water and pretty much unpalatable food.

Author : Paul Chrystal
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399071277

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Women at Work in World Wars I and II by Paul Chrystal Pdf

This book is about women in World Wars I & II - women working in factories and on farms, or toiling perilously in field stations just behind the front lines, in inhospitable hospitals and convalescent homes. It is, therefore, about the prodigious contribution women made to the war efforts from 1914-1918 and 1939-1945, standing in for the men who had left their places of work for the various theatres of war from Greece and Italy to Belgium, from Mesopotamia to France. Their tasks were many and various: keeping the troops supplied with shells, bullets and explosives, keeping the nation from starving to death, keeping hundreds of thousands of wounded troops alive so that they might fight another day. The book is, in short, the uplifting but sometimes tragic story of the many women who stepped up to work in the factories, hospitals, field stations, in transport and in civil defense, on the farms and shipyards, or signed up to the various military and civil services during the two world wars of the 20th century, ‘wars to end all wars…’. The book is different because it deals with women’s labour in both world wars and in all occupations, it covers the discrimination and prejudice they faced from men at every level, military and civilian, even when they had demonstrated beyond doubt that they were quick learners, industrious and proficient, and usually as good as any man. The book raises the embarrassing question why it has it taken so long for the prodigious contribution women made in both wars to be recognized, and why some women workers still remain air brushed from our military history after more than a century. As it turned out, little was beyond their capabilities and it is reasonable to suppose that without their huge efforts and accomplishments both wars might have turned out very differently for us.

Author : Angela Woollacott
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1994-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520914651

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On Her Their Lives Depend by Angela Woollacott Pdf

In this evocative book, Angela Woollacott analyzes oral histories, workers' writings, newspapers, official reports, and factory song lyrics to present an intimate view of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I. Munitions work offered working-class women—for the first time—independence, a reliable income, even an improved standard of living. But male employers and trade unionists brought them face-to-face with their subordination as women within their own class, while experiences with middle-class women co-workers and police reminded them of their status as working class. Woollacott sees the woman munitions worker as a powerful symbol of modernity who challenged the gender order through her patriotic work and challenged class differences through her increased spending power, mobility, and changing social behavior.

Author : Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415052901

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Women Workers in the Second World War by Penny Summerfield Pdf

Author : Margaret R. Higonnet,Jane Jenson,Sonya Michel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300044291

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Behind the Lines by Margaret R. Higonnet,Jane Jenson,Sonya Michel Pdf

Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war

Author : Susan R. Grayzel
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469620817

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Women's Identities at War by Susan R. Grayzel Pdf

There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "natural" as during wartime: men go off to the "war front," while women stay behind on the "home front." But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World War, when, for the first time, "home" and "domestic" became adjectives that modified the military term "front." Such an innovation acknowledged the significant and presumably new contributions of civilians, especially women, to the war effort. Yet, as Susan Grayzel argues, throughout the war, traditional notions of masculinity and femininity survived, primarily through the maintenance of--and indeed reemphasis on--soldiering and mothering as the core of gender and national identities. Drawing on sources that range from popular fiction and war memorials to newspapers and legislative debates, Grayzel analyzes the effects of World War I on ideas about civic participation, national service, morality, sexuality, and identity in wartime Britain and France. Despite the appearance of enormous challenges to gender roles due to the upheavals of war, the forces of stability prevailed, she says, demonstrating the Western European gender system's remarkable resilience.