1st Edition

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

By Miriam Glucksmann Copyright 1990
338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

338 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Miriam Glucksmann