| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : illustrations |
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Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture |
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Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture.
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| Contents |
1. War and the Rationalization of Work -- 2. Equal Opportunity Denied -- 3. Toward an Epistemology of Skill -- 4. Unraveling the Sacred Union -- 5. Welfare Supervision and Labor Discipline, 1916-1918 -- 6. Demobilization and the Reclassification of Labor, 1918-1920 -- Interlude: The Schizophrenic Decades, 1920-1939 -- 7. Reshaping Factory Culture in Interwar France -- 8. The Limits of Labor Stratification in Interwar Britain |
| Summary |
"Manufacturing Inequality compares the complex historical process whereby metals employers in two distinct national and cultural settings first brought women into their factories and then reorganized work procedures and managerial structures to accommodate the new workforce. Drawing from an extensive range of previously untapped industrial archives, Laura Lee Downs analyzes how sexual difference was transformed from a principle for excluding women into a basis for dividing labor within the newly restructured production process. She explores the origins of wage discrimination and occupational segregation through the lens of managerial strategy, tracing the gendered redefinition of job skills, the division of the shop floor into hierarchically ordered spaces, the deployment of women welfare supervisors, and the implantation of scientific management techniques. Through its detailed comparative analysis of employers' attitudes toward women workers, Manufacturing Inequality mounts a careful critique of both neoclassical economics and feminist dual systems as frameworks for understanding gender discrimination in industry."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Employment Role of Sex differences History |
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France |
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Great Britain |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-321) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Sexual division of labor -- France -- History
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Sexual division of labor -- Great Britain -- History
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Metalworking industries -- France -- History
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Metalworking industries -- Great Britain -- History
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15.70 history of Europe.
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Metalworking industries
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Sexual division of labor
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Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung
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Metallindustrie
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Sekseverschillen.
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Metaalindustrie.
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Métallurgistes -- France -- 1900-1945.
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Industrie métallurgique -- Personnel -- France -- 1900-1945.
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Industrie métallurgique -- Personnel -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1900-1945.
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Métallurgistes -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1900-1945.
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Division sexuelle du travail -- France -- 1900-1945.
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Division sexuelle du travail -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1900-1945.
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Industrie métallurgique -- France -- 1900-1945.
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Industrie métallurgique -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1900-1945.
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France
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Great Britain
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Frankreich
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Großbritannien
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0801430151 |
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9780801430152 |
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