Women at the gates : gender and industry in Stalin's Russia / / Wendy Z. Goldman [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783128303321
• Autore: Goldman Wendy Z.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 0-511-08436-6; 1-107-12015-2; 1-280-16024-1; 1-139-14641-6; 0-511-11860-0; 0-511-06684-8; 0-511-06053-X; 0-511-30448-X; 0-511-51186-8; 0-511-06897-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 331.4/0947
• Soggetti: Women - Employment - Soviet Union - History; Industrialization - Soviet Union - History; Women - Soviet Union - Social conditions; Soviet Union Economic policy 1917-1928; Soviet Union Economic policy 1928-1932
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Guarding the Gates to the Working Class: Women in Industry, 1917-1929 -- ; 2. The Struggle over Working-Class Feminism -- ; 3. The Gates Come Tumbling Down -- ; 4. From Exclusion to Recruitment -- ; 5. "The Five-Year Plan for Women": Planning Above, Counterplanning Below -- ; 6. Planning and Chaos: The Struggle for Control -- ; 7. Gender Relations in Industry: Voices from the Point of Production -- ; 8. Rebuilding the Gates to the Working Class.
• Sommario/riassunto: In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. Even more striking was the critical role of women: in ; no country of the world did women come to constitute such a significant part of the working class in so short a time. They composed a larger percentage of the working class, filled an unprecedented share of jobs in heavy industry, and served as the first targeted 'reserve' for Soviet labour policy and recruitment. As women undercut the strict hierarchies of skill and gender within the factories, they forced male workers to re-examine their ideas about 'masculine' and 'feminine' work, and women's role in the work place. Using new Russian archival materials, Women at the Gates is the first social history of Soviet women workers in the 1930s.