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ISBN: 1136248668 0203104218 1283895439 1136248676 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,
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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
Women --- Public opinion --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Employment --- History --- Women. --- Influence.
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ISBN: 1136247335 0203103963 1299279171 1136247343 Year: 2013 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,
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Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars.Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews about the call up, their personal reactions to war, their feelings about pay and the company at work, the effects of war on their health, their relations with men and their home lives; they speak too about how demobilisation affected them, and how they spent the years between two World
Women --- World War, 1914-1918 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Employment --- History --- Social conditions.
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