Women Workers In The Second World War

Author : Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136247262

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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 : Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 041503907X

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Women Workers in the Second World War by Penny Summerfield Pdf

Examines the impact of the war on women's employment and the contribution that women made to the war effort. The author also looks at the relationship between capital labour and women in this critical period in the history of women.

Author : Penny Summerfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1415052901

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Women Workers in the Second World War by Penny Summerfield Pdf

Author : P. Summerfield,University of Sussex
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:53526737

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Women Workers in the Second World War by P. Summerfield,University of Sussex Pdf

Author : Gail Braybon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : 0415042011

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Women Workers in the First World War by Gail Braybon Pdf

Author : Gail Braybon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Julia Brock,Jennifer W. Dickey,Richard Harker,Catherine Lewis
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557286703

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Beyond Rosie by Julia Brock,Jennifer W. Dickey,Richard Harker,Catherine Lewis Pdf

Collection of primary source documents, which include photographs, official reports, editorials, executive orders, radio broadcast scripts, letters and oral histories, detailing the experiences and contributions of American women during World War II. The documentary collection is a companion volume to a 2012 traveling exhibition from the Museum of History and Holocaust Education. Chapter 1 documents the mobilization of women into industrial factories and agricultural sectors. Chapter 2 deals with women who found employment in white-collar professions, such as law, journalism, clerical work and medicine. Chapter 3 traces women's service in military auxiliary units. Chapter 4 focuses on women's domestic labor on the home front. Chapter 5 documents the secret war waged by the government including its use of women as spies and saboteurs.

Author : Gail Braybon
Publisher : London : Croom Helm ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
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 : Margaret R. Higonnet,Jane Jenson,Sonya Michel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Maurine Weiner Greenwald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801497337

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Women, War, and Work by Maurine Weiner Greenwald Pdf

Author : Mark J. Crowley,Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275878

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Women's Experiences of the Second World War by Mark J. Crowley,Sandra Trudgen Dawson Pdf

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.

Author : Karen Anderson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000325687

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Wartime Women by Karen Anderson Pdf

artime Women examines in detail the short-term changes of the war years; the jobs in war plants and support services; the effects of women's earnings on family finances; the response of trade unions. Anderson shows that the seeds of the postwar denial of women's equal participation were present in the ambivalence of wartime attitudes. Crammed with information perceptively interpreted.

Author : Lynn Dumenil
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469631226

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The Second Line of Defense by Lynn Dumenil Pdf

In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American "new woman," Lynn Dumenil examines World War I's surprising impact on women and, in turn, women's impact on the war. Telling the stories of a diverse group of women, including African Americans, dissidents, pacifists, reformers, and industrial workers, Dumenil analyzes both the roadblocks and opportunities they faced. She richly explores the ways in which women helped the United States mobilize for the largest military endeavor in the nation's history. Dumenil shows how women activists staked their claim to loyal citizenship by framing their war work as homefront volunteers, overseas nurses, factory laborers, and support personnel as "the second line of defense." But in assessing the impact of these contributions on traditional gender roles, Dumenil finds that portrayals of these new modern women did not always match with real and enduring change. Extensively researched and drawing upon popular culture sources as well as archival material, The Second Line of Defense offers a comprehensive study of American women and war and frames them in the broader context of the social, cultural, and political history of the era.

Author : Liza Mundy
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316352550

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Code Girls by Liza Mundy Pdf

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.

Author : Elaine Tyler May
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786723461

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Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May Pdf

In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam era's assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and "secular humanists" became the new "enemy." This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.