Women Assemble: Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-War Britain

di Miriam Glucksmann (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2022

Why did working-class women become the central labour force on assembly lines in the new consumer goods’ industries of the inter-war period? What was the long-term significance of this for the pattern of women’s work, both in paid employment and in the home? Originally published in 1990, Women Assemble fills a major gap in the history of women and work, and develops a theory of women’s class relations, and of course gender and class more generally, by means of an original case-study. Taken from a wide variety of sources, it uses a multidisciplinary approach and is brought to life by interviews with people who worked in assembly-line industries during the inter-war period. This extremely readable study is important to feminists, historians, and sociologists, as well as to all those concerned with issues of gender, class, and the labour process.

• Autore: Miriam Glucksmann
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 326 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 453 gr.
• EAN: 9781032285436

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