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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
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Women Workers In The First World War
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Author : Gail Braybon
language : en
Publisher: London : Croom Helm ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble
Release Date : 1981
Women Workers In The First World War written by Gail Braybon and has been published by London : Croom Helm ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Women Workers In The First World War
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Author : Gail Braybon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-12-12
Women Workers In The First World War written by Gail Braybon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-12 with History categories.
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.
Woman In The War
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Author : United States. Council of National Defense. Committee on Women's Defense Work. News Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Woman In The War written by United States. Council of National Defense. Committee on Women's Defense Work. News Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Social Science categories.
Women Social Leadership And The Second World War
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Author : James Hinton
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2002-11-21
Women Social Leadership And The Second World War written by James Hinton and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-21 with History categories.
The associational life of middle-class women in twentieth-century England has been largely ignored by historians. During the Second World War women's clubs, guilds, and institutes provided a basis for the mobilization of up to a million women, mainly housewives, into unpaid part-time work. Women's Voluntary Service, which was set up by the Government in 1938 to organize this work, generated a rich archive of reports and correspondence which provide the social historian with a unique window into the female public sphere. Questioning the view that the Second World War served to democratize English society, James Hinton shows how the war enabled middle-class social leaders to reinforce their claims to authority. Displaying 'character' through their voluntary work, the leisured women at the centre of this study made themselves indispensable to the war effort. James Hinton delineates these 'continuities of class', reconstructing intimate portraits of local female social leadership in contrasting settings across provincial England (towns large and small, shire counties, the Durham coalfield), tracing complex and often acerbic rivalries within the voluntary sector, and uncovering gulfs of mutual distrust and incomprehension dividing publicly active women along gendered frontiers of class and party. This study reminds us how much Britain's wartime mobilization relied on a Victorian ethos of public service to cope with the profoundly un-Victorian problems of total war. The women's associations so evocatively explored here reached the apex of their effectiveness during the Second World War, sustaining an uneasy balance between voluntarism and the expanding power of the state. In the longer term female social leaders found themselves marginalized by bureaucracy and professionalization. The stories told here demonstrate that the Second World War changed English society far less than is often assumed. It was not until the 1950s and 1960s that practices and attitudes laid down in the nineteenth century finally lost their purchase.
Women And The Women S Movement In Britain 1914 1959
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Author : Martin Pugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Women And The Women S Movement In Britain 1914 1959 written by Martin Pugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Feminism categories.
'This book provides a comprehensive and well documented political history of women and the women's movement in the period under examination, drawing on evidence from a wide range of sources and analysing the complex inter-relationship between the organized women's movement, the majority of women outside the official women's movement, and the male political establishment in Britain.' A. Brown, University of Edinburgh, political Studies, Vol. XL1, No 2, 6/93. Using the widest range of evidence, from the political feminist pressure groups to popular women's magazines, this book provides a challenging and original analysis of the adaptation of the women's movement in Britain in the period between the winning of the vote and the late 1950's. It examines how women successfully worked with the grain of change in the political system; but it also considers the nature of the long-term decline of the organised movement.
Women In Britain Since 1945
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Author : Jane E. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 1992
Women In Britain Since 1945 written by Jane E. Lewis and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.
Women S War Work
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Author : Great Britain War Office
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Women S War Work written by Great Britain War Office and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with categories.
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Women S War Work
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Author : Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
Women S War Work written by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Women categories.
On Her Their Lives Depend
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Author : Angela Woollacott
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-05-20
On Her Their Lives Depend written by Angela Woollacott and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-05-20 with History categories.
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.