On her their lives depend : munitions workers in the Great War / Angela Woollacott.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520914650
- 0520914651
- 0585079471
- 9780585079479
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Great Britain
- Weapons industry -- Great Britain -- Employees
- Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 -- Femmes -- Grande-Bretagne
- Armes -- Industrie -- Grande-Bretagne -- Personnel
- HISTORY -- Military -- World War I
- Weapons industry -- Employees
- Women
- Great Britain
- Arbeiterin
- Frau
- R�ustungsindustrie
- Waffenindustrie
- Weltkrieg 1914-1918
- Gro�britannien
- Eerste Wereldoorlog
- Wapenindustrie
- Vrouwenarbeid
- History & Archaeology
- History - General
- CAS HI 253
- World War (1914-1918)
- 1914-1918
- 940.3/41/082 20
- D639.W7 W66 1994eb
- 15.70
- NP 4410
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
The army of women: munitions factories and women workers -- The heterogeneity of women workers: mixing and mobility -- "Industrial work is good for women": health, welfare, deaths, and injuries -- Status and experience as workers -- "High wages and premature liberty": wages, autonomy, and public censure -- Off the job: leisure, socializing, and sex -- Class relations among women -- "On her their lives depend": gender, war, and women munitions workers.
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This book examines the experience of women munitions workers in Britain during WW1.
English.
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