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BL
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881466
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Downs, Laura Lee,1955-
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Manufacturing inequality : : gender division in the French and British metalworking industries, 1914-1939 /\ Laura Lee Downs.
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| Publication Statement
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Ithaca :: Cornell University Press,, 1995.
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| Series Statement
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The Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture
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xiv, 329 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0801430151
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: 9780801430152
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-321) and index.
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| Contents
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1. War and the Rationalization of Work -- 2. Equal Opportunity Denied -- 3. Toward an Epistemology of Skill -- 4. Unraveling the Sacred Union -- 5. Welfare Supervision and Labor Discipline, 1916-1918 -- 6. Demobilization and the Reclassification of Labor, 1918-1920 -- Interlude: The Schizophrenic Decades, 1920-1939 -- 7. Reshaping Factory Culture in Interwar France -- 8. The Limits of Labor Stratification in Interwar Britain.
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| Abstract
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"Manufacturing Inequality compares the complex historical process whereby metals employers in two distinct national and cultural settings first brought women into their factories and then reorganized work procedures and managerial structures to accommodate the new workforce. Drawing from an extensive range of previously untapped industrial archives, Laura Lee Downs analyzes how sexual difference was transformed from a principle for excluding women into a basis for dividing labor within the newly restructured production process. She explores the origins of wage discrimination and occupational segregation through the lens of managerial strategy, tracing the gendered redefinition of job skills, the division of the shop floor into hierarchically ordered spaces, the deployment of women welfare supervisors, and the implantation of scientific management techniques. Through its detailed comparative analysis of employers' attitudes toward women workers, Manufacturing Inequality mounts a careful critique of both neoclassical economics and feminist dual systems as frameworks for understanding gender discrimination in industry."--Jacket.
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Metalworking industries-- France-- History.
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Metalworking industries-- Great Britain-- History.
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Sexual division of labor-- France-- History.
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Sexual division of labor-- Great Britain-- History.
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Division sexuelle du travail-- France-- Histoire.
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Division sexuelle du travail-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire.
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Industries métallurgiques-- France-- Histoire.
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Industries métallurgiques-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire.
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15.70 history of Europe.
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Division sexuelle du travail-- France-- 1900-1945.
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Division sexuelle du travail-- Grande-Bretagne-- 1900-1945.
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Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung
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Industrie métallurgique-- Personnel-- France-- 1900-1945.
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Industrie métallurgique-- Personnel-- Grande-Bretagne-- 1900-1945.
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Industrie métallurgique-- France-- 1900-1945.
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Industrie métallurgique-- Grande-Bretagne-- 1900-1945.
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Metallindustrie
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Métallurgistes-- France-- 1900-1945.
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Métallurgistes-- Grande-Bretagne-- 1900-1945.
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Metalworking industries.
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Sexual division of labor.
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Metaalindustrie.
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Sekseverschillen.
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France.
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Frankreich
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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| Dewey Classification
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306.3/615
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| LC Classification
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HD6060.65.F8D69 1995
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15.70bcl
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NN 8300rvk
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