More Than Munitions: Women, Work and the Engineering Industries, 1900-1950

ISBN-13: 9780582414358 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 str.

Clare Wightman;Wightman

Opis

Looks at the role of gender in explaining the experiences of women and men at work. The text focuses on women's employment in the engineering industries between 1900 and 1950. It challenges the special place given to male dominance in many of the existing accounts of women's work.

Spis treści

Women's employment, 1900-1950; the engineering industry, 1900-1950; World War I - munitions work and its impact, 1914-1919; women's employment between the wars; disputes - the significance of collective bargaining, 1919-1939; a specialized line - women and trade unions, 1919-1939; World War II - dilution, an arrangement for men?; would women stay? the effects of war work; post-war divisions of labour.

O autorze

Clare Wightman