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More than munitions : women, work and the engineering industries, 1900-1950
- Title
- More than munitions : women, work and the engineering industries, 1900-1950 / Clare Wightman.
- Author
- Wightman, Clare.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Longman, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Description
- viii, 207 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Clare Wightman focuses on women's employment in the engineering industries between 1900 and 1950. She challenges the special place given to male dominance in many of the existing accounts of women's work and examines afresh contentious issues.
- Series Statement
- Women and men in history
- Uniform Title
- Women and men in history
- Alternative Title
- Women, work and the engineering industries, 1900-1950
- Subject
- Börngen, ..
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1900-1950
- Women in engineering > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Women engineers > Employment > Great Britain
- Women > Employment > History > Great Britain > 20th century
- Women > Employment > History > 20th century
- Women in engineering > History > 20th century
- Sexual division of labor > History > 20th century
- Sex role in the work environment > History > 20th century
- Women employees > Effect of technological innovations on > History > 20th century
- Women employees > Effect of technological innovations on
- Sex role in the work environment
- Sexual division of labor
- Women > Employment
- Women engineers > Employment
- Women in engineering
- Beschäftigung
- Maschinenbauindustrie
- Frau
- Vrouwenarbeid
- Industrie
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Women's employment, 1900-1950 -- 2. The engineering industry, 1900-1950 -- 3. The first world war : munitions work and its impact, 1914-1919 -- 4. Women's employment between the wars -- 5. Disputes : the significance of collective bargaining, 1919-1939 -- 6. "A specialised line' : women and trade unions, 1919-1939 -- 7. The second world war : dilution, 'An arrangement for men'? -- 8. Would women stay? The effects of war work -- 9. Post-war divisions of labour.
- ISBN
- 0582414350
- 9780582414358
- LCCN
- 2008357039
- OCLC
- ocm41311688
- 41311688
- SCSB-868570
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library