Key Girls. The engineering industry and women's employment, 1900-1950
Details:
- Author(s) Wightman, Clare M P
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 1997
- Publisher Birkbeck College
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
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Library:
- Name Birkbeck University of London
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode WC1E 7HX
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Notes:
Seeks to analyse the rapid rise in employment of women in engineering - especially electrical engineering and motor vehicle manufacture - between 1900-50, looking beyond ideological issues behind male dominance in order to take account of other influences and factors. Sections include: 'Engineering industry, 1900-50'; 'Munitions work and its impact'; 'Women's employment in motor vehicles and electrical engineering' including GEC/Peel Conner Telephone & Radio Works and Henry Lucas Ltd; 'Significance of collective bargaining procedure, 1919-39'; 'Specialised line - women and trade unions, 1919-39'; ''Arrangement with men' - dilution in the Second World War'; 'Would women stay? The effect of war work'; ' Also, re-evaluates the role and attitudes of trade unions to female labour. See also the writer's 'More than Munitions. Women, work and the engineering industries, 1900-1950'. Longmans, 1999