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Women were drawn into assembly-line work in large numbers in the 1920s and 1930s with the introduction of methods of mass production. Many new occupations were created but all were sex-typed from the start, assembly lines for consumer goods being strictly feminine. The pattern of gender segregation that emerged had important effects for the relation between men and women as workers, and between women and capital. The inter-war period also saw the creation of the "ideal home" and the "ideal housewife" and laid the basis for a transformation in the domestic economy. "Women Assemble" explores the connections between women's work in the home and paid employment. Ready-made food, off-the-peg clothing, domestic electrical appliances, and many of the other new goods produced by women in the workplace were also consumed by women in the home. Changes in domestic labour with the expansion of domestic technology, and the shift from domestic service towards factory work, contributed to the development of a new sexual division of labour. "Women Assemble" highlights an important and often overlooked area of women's employment and its historical findings are used to address contemporary questions in the study of class, gender and the labour process.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0415031966
- ISBN 13 9780415031967
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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Women assemble : women workers and the new industries in inter-war Britain / Miriam Glucksmann
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1st edition. Fine title-blocked cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 325 pages. Contents; List of Tables. List of Figures. Acknowledgements. List of Abbreviations. 1. Introduction 2. The Changing Pattern of Women's Employment 3. The Restructuring of Industrial Capitalism 4. Five Factories 5. Women Assembling: Work, Wages and Assembly-Line Production 6. Women Assembled: Gender and the Division of Labour 7. Homeward Bound: Changes in Domestic Production and Consumption 8. Women and the Total Social Organization of Labour. Appendix: List of Main People Interviewed. Notes. References. Index. Subjects; Geschichte 1918-1939. Women Employment Great Britain History 20th century. Assembly-line methods History 20th century. Women Employment History Great Britain. Women Employment Great Britain History 20th century. Women Employment Great Britain 1918-1939. Women Employment Great Britain History. Travail à la chaîne Histoire 20e siècle. Assembly-line methods. Economic history. Women Employment. Arbeitsorganisation. Frauenarbeit. Arbeiterin. Fließbandarbeit. Vrouwenarbeid. Werkende vrouwen. 20th Century. Industry. Assembly Lines. Great Britain Economic conditions 1918-1945. Grande-Bretagne Conditions économiques 1918-1945. Great Britain. Großbritannien. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 394996
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