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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811801103321

Autore

Braybon Gail

Titolo

Women workers in the First World War / / Gail Braybon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-24866-8

0-203-10421-8

1-283-89543-9

1-136-24867-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Women's history ; ; v. 6

Disciplina

331.4/0941/09041

331.4094109041

Soggetti

Women - Employment - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Women - Employment - Public opinion - History - 20th century

Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 20th century

World War, 1914-1918 - Women

World War, 1914-1918 - Influence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1981"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Preface; 1. Women's Position in the Labour Force before 1914; 2. The Need for Women's Labour in the First World War; 3. Women in Industry: (1) The Attitudes of Employers and Trade Unions; 4. Women in Industry: (2) The Economic Problems of Women's Labour, and the Question of Equal Pay; 5. Biology as Destiny: Women, Motherhood and Welfare; 6. Women's Public Image during the War; 7. Demobilisation and the Aftermath; 8. The Position of Women Workers in the Twenties; 9. Final Comments

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Sommario/riassunto

Commentators writing soon after the outbreak of the First World War about the classic problems of women's employment (low pay, lack of career structure, exclusion from ""men's jobs"") frequently went on to say that the war had ""changed all this"", and that women's position would never be the same again.This book looks at how and why women



were employed, and in what ways society's attitudes towards women workers did or did not change during the war. Contrary to the mythology of the war, which portrayed women as popular workers, rewarded with the vote for their splendid work, the auth