Article: Nice Girls and Rude Girls: Women Workers in World War One & Working Class Culture, Women and Britain 1914-1921.(Review)

Article: Rosie the Rubber Worker: Women Workers in Akrons ...
Michigan Historical Review;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... and the upheavals of wartime. World War II Akron, the center of U.S ... In the decades before and during World War II, the proportion of workers ... women's advancement, and paid women workers less than their male counterparts ...

Article: WORLD WAR II WOMEN WORKERS ARE SOUGHT
Post-Tribune (IN);  January 7, 1988 ;     284 words ... ... University Calumet student wants to hear from women who, during World War II, took jobs traditionally performed by men. Grace Cole, a graduate student, is researching women workers in local businesses and industries from 1940 to 1945. She wants ...

Article: Cherished classifications: bathrooms and the construction of ...
Feminist Studies;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... hygiene, the company's wartime management of women workers, and class-based conflicts over workplace bathrooms ... construction worthy of serious scholarship. THE PRR AND WOMEN WORKERS World War II altered the composition of the PRR's labor ...

Article: Rosie the Riveter: an enduring legacy of World War ...
DAV Magazine;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... desperately needed. During World War I, women began shouldering ... freedom. But it was World War II that gave women ... toured factories with women workers, was in awe of what ... of veterans from World War II, most women workers were replaced by ...

Article: She's no lady: the experience and expression of gender among ...
Urban History Review;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... it be surprising, then, that this "masculine" trade has long had women workers? There were female cab drivers in Europe's metropolises before 1910, and by World War I they were popping up in Canadian cities as well, typically as jitney ...

Article: Women workers and technological change in Europe in ...
Labour/Le Travail;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... British munitions industry during the World War I. She argues instead that the new development was managing large groups of women workers in the processes of substitution (substituting ... outcome was little durable change for most women workers. The pottery industry is discussed ...

Article: Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during ...
Business History Review;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Labor (AFL) during World War II. Noting that most ... rapidly than the CIO. World War II proved a lifesaver ... union relations during World War II. Kersten emphasizes ... union treatment of women workers; the unions' handling ...