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In the English-speaking world the Great War maintains a tenacious grip on the public imagination, and also continues to draw historians to an event which has been interpreted variously as a symbol of modernity, the midwife to the twentieth century and an agent of social change. Although much ''common knowledge'' about the war and its aftermath has included myth, simplification and generalisation, this has often been accepted uncritically by popular and academic writers alike. While Britain may have suffered a surfeit of war books, many telling much the same story, there is far less written a

History of Europe --- History as a science --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1930-1939 --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1920-1929 --- Guerre et société --- #SBIB:041.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:93H3 --- Thematische geschiedenis --- World War, 1914-1918 --- War and society. --- Première guerre mondiale --- Guerre et société --- Historiography. --- Women. --- Medical care. --- Social aspects. --- Historiographie --- Femmes --- Soins médicaux --- Aspect social --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Social aspects

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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1910-1919

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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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De auteurs baseren zich op dagboeken, memoires, brieven en opgenomen interviews van Britse vrouwen, waarin zij getuigen over hun werkervaringen tijdens beide wereldoorlogen. De Eerste Wereldoorlog gaf aan vele vrouwen aanvankelijk een gevoel van vrijheid en optimisme doordat ze zich nuttig konden maken voor hun land. Dat stond echter in schril contrast met de daaropvolgende bitterheid toen zij na 1918 hun jobs in de fabrieken weer moesten afstaan aan mannen. Het was “like being let out of a cage”, zoals de titel van het boek zegt. Reeds bij de mobilisatie in 1914 was er verzet tegen de massale intrede van vrouwen in de fabrieken. Onervaren werkkrachten moesten nu het werk van specialisten leren en heel wat mannelijke ingenieurs weigerden hen machines te laten bedienen en ingewikkelde productieprocessen te laten beheren. De Britse overheid moest ingrijpen en sloot daartoe akkoorden met de vakbonden, waarin bepaalde garanties werden afgedwongen, veelal in het nadeel van de vrouw. Diezelfde overheid bleek ook weinig aandacht te hebben voor de combinatie arbeid-gezin. Hoe vrouwen met zulke tegenwerkingen en hinderpalen omgingen, is de focus van dit boek.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- History --- Book --- First World War --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1940-1949 --- Great Britain

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