Women workers in World War II: Michigan as a test case

Clive, Alan

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“…As the story goes, the disruptive change substantially altered attitudes toward women in the workplace. Alan Clive (1979, pp. 51–52) found that early in the war a number of employers opposed hiring women because they “did not understand machinery and were not trainable.” Further, they complained of the added costs of adjusting machinery and adding restrooms.…”

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“…Not all historians have agreed that the war was transformative. Claudia Goldin (1991, p. 743) reported that the historical literature in the 1980s provided evidence that questioned this narrative, citing D’Ann Campbell’s (1984, p. 236) conclusion: “It is difficult to argue that World War II, in itself, constituted a watershed in the experience of American women.” Even though many women who joined the workforce during the war sought to remain at work, women were laid off in large numbers as employers and unions gave preference to men in retention and hiring (e.g., see Clive 1979; U.S. Women’s Bureau 1948).…”

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“…1For example, emphasizing the transformative effect of the war on women’s employment see Chafe (1974), Clive (1979), and Gregory (1974). For discussions of the layoffs, firings, and rehirings, see Pidgeon (1946) and U.S. Women’s Bureau (1948).…”

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“…5For example, see Chafe (1972), Clive (1979), and Gregory (1974). The Women’s’ Bureau in the Department of Labor provided a series of reports about the experience of female workers during the war.…”

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The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing

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2018

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Most studies of female workers in the 1940s focus on labor supply. We use the basics of supply and demand to measure the impact of WWII on the short- and medium-run demand for female workers in manufacturing. Demand rose for both salaried and production female workers during the war and then fell after the war. However, the post-war demands for both groups were substantially higher than before the war and higher than the levels that would have been reached had the demands followed a counterfactual growth path from the boom period in the 1920s.

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Postwar Women's History: The “Second Wave” or the End of the Family Wage?

MacLean¹

2006

A Companion to Post‐1945 America

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Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Women, War, and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980. 308 pp. - Karen Anderson, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women during World War II. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981. 198 pp.

Cott

1982

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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These two well-researched and closely-reasoned books advance our knowledge substantially beyond the generalizations usually made about the experience and the effects of women's employment during the two world wars. Maurine Greenwald's Women, War and Work concentrates on women workers in three occupations: on the railroads, as streetcar conductors, and as telephone operators, between 1917 and 1920. World War I provides her setting, and her subjects' employment is essentially conditioned by the war, but it is not war industry per se. Greenwald uses the war experience as a lens through which to examine in detail changes in women's work from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century, and the relation of women's employment to changes in technology and industrial organization, to government intervention, employers' managerial techniques, trade-union activities, and working-class solidarity. As her different subtitle suggests, Karen Anderson in Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women during World War II is less concerned with the major contours of labour history. Her book focuses on three boom sites of military production, the Seattle area, Detroit, and Baltimore; the women workers she examines are employed in war industry and she traces, besides on-the-job experience, attitudes toward and problems of sexuality, marriage, family life and child care.

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Women workers in World War II: Michigan as a test case

Cited by 8 publications

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The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing

The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing

Postwar Women's History: The “Second Wave” or the End of the Family Wage?

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