Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II (Working Class in American History) - Softcover

Milkman, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252013573 ISBN 13: 9780252013577

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1987

Synopsis

"By analyzing the process of work in both the electrical and the automobile industries, the supplies of male and female labor available to each, the varying degrees of labor-intensive work, the proportion of labor costs to total costs, and the extent of male resistance to female entry into the industry before, during, and after the war, Milkman offers a historically grounded and detailed examination of the evolution, function, and reproduction of job segregation by sex."
-- Journal of American History
"Analytic sophistication is coupled with a powerfully rendered narrative: the reader strides briskly along, enjoying one provocative insight after another while simultaneously absorbed by the drama of the events."
-- Women's Review of Books

About this title

About the Author

Ruth Milkman is Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and Academic Director of CUNY's Murphy Labor Institute. She is the author of several books, including the prizewinning Gender at Work and L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement. She is the coauthor of Unfinished Business, editor of Organizing Immigrants, and coeditor of New Labor in New York: Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement, Rebuilding Labor, and Working for Justice, all from Cornell.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0252013573
• ISBN 13: 9780252013577
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 232