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Manufacturing Inequality : Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939 /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Downs, Laura Lee (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Colección:The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
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  • 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