More than Munitions. Women, work and the engineering industries, 1900-1950
Details:
- Author(s) Wightman, Clare M P
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1999
- Pages 207pp
- Publisher Longmans
- Place Published London
Topics:
- Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
- Name Comparative international studies
- Name Production of goods & services - methods & organisation
- Name Worker / employee & industrial relations inc conflict, negotiation, demarcation, perogative, etc
- Name Worker / employee wages & remuneration
Countries:
- United States
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly work. See the writer's doctoral thesis 'Key Girls. The engineering industry and women's employment, 1900-1950', Birkbeck, 1997. Opens with an introduction to the theories behind women's employment, followed by two general, scene setting chapters on 1] women's paid work generally with comparisons made with the United States and continental Europe and 2] the nature of the engineering industry, 1900-50. Then examines the historical experience of women in the engineering industry especially in the world wars, the significance of mass production and assembly lines to their employment, relations with other parties such as trade unions and employers. Sections include: 'Women's employment, 1900-50'; 'Engineering industry, 1900-50'; 'First World War - munitions work and its impact, 1914-19'; 'Women's employment between the wars. 'Disputes - the significance of collective bargaining, 1919-39'; ''A specialised line' - women and trade unions, 1919-39'; 'Second World War - dilution, 'an arrangement for men?''; 'Would women stay? The effects of war work'; 'Post-war divisions of labour'