Manufacturing Inequality : : Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914–1939 / / Laura Lee Downs.
As the demands of war forced a major reorganization of industry between 1914 and 1918, thousands of French and British women left their jobs as weavers, dressmakers, or domestic servants and moved into the all-male world of metalworking. In neither country, however, did the sexual division of labor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 17 b&w halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. War and the Rationalization of Work
- 2. Equal Opportunity Denied
- 3. Toward an Epistemology of Skill
- 4. Unraveling the Sacred Union
- 5. Welfare Supervision and Labor Discipline, 1916-1918
- 6. Demobilization and the Reclassification of Labor, 1918-1920
- Interlude: The Schizophrenic Decades, 1920-1939
- 7. Reshaping Factory Culture in Interwar France
- 8. The Limits of Labor Stratification in Interwar Britain
- Epilogue
- Bibliographic Note
- Archives and Government Publications Cited
- Index