Nice girls and rude girls : women workers in World War I
Thom examines the myth and reality of women's experience of war, showing that before 1914 they were often supporting dependants, had acquired considerable industrial experience, and that women's trade activity was growing
History
xvi, 224 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781860644771, 1860644775
1078833617
Introduction-survey of literature and historiography; technological change and its nature of dilution; statistical survey of women's work and its location; representation and record keeping; women and trade unions at war-time; health and TNT poisoning; women at Woolwich Arsenal; conclusion-positive re-structuring of the labour market, politics memory, assessment of oral history and literature of "experience of war".