Women Workers After VJ-day in One Community, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Author: United States. Women's Bureau
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Women's Bureau
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Published: 1947
Total Pages: 42
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mary K. Witkowski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780738511238
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What was it like to work and live in Bridgeport during the past two centuries? No one could tell us better than the people who worked on the line in the factories, sold goods behind the counter at a department store, taught children in local schools, ran a travel agency, worked as a housewife, drove a truck, or ran one of the many prosperous businesses that helped Bridgeport grow and develop. Bridgeport at Work chronicles the working life of Bridgeport, a center of industry and home to several legendary individuals. P.T. Barnum, who made Bridgeport his adopted home, began an 1851 project that established an industrial center in East Bridgeport, spurring many other companies to set up in this remarkable city. Igor Sikorsky, Simon Lake, Lucien and I. DeVer Warner, Harvey Hubbell, Elias Howe, and for a short time even Buckminster Fuller all produced some of their best work in Bridgeport. World Wars I and II helped to build the munitions and defense industry in the city, and companies such as Remington Arms, the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, and Sikorsky Aircraft thrived. Bridgeport at Work shows the workers and companies, producing everything from Frisbie pies to firearms, that made Bridgeport the "Arsenal of Democracy," and an industrial leader at a crucial time in American history.
Author: Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 1354
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elisabeth Dewel Benham
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Published: 1944
Total Pages: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael D. Gambone
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1603445501
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the conclusion of World War II, Americans anxiously contemplated the return to peace. It was an uncertain time, filled with concerns about demobilization, inflation, strikes, and the return of a second Great Depression. Balanced against these challenges was the hope in a future of unparalleled opportunities for a generation raised in hard times and war. One of the remarkable untold stories of postwar America is the successful assimilation of sixteen million veterans back into civilian society after 1945. The G.I. generation returned home filled with the same sense of fear and hope as most citizens at the time. Their transition from conflict to normalcy is one of the greatest chapters in American history. "The Greatest Generation Comes Home" combines military and social history into a comprehensive narrative of the veteran's experience after World War II. It integrates early impressions of home in 1945 with later stories of medical recovery, education, work, politics, and entertainment, as well as moving accounts of the dislocation, alienation, and discomfort many faced. The book includes the experiences of not only the millions of veterans drawn from mainstream white America, but also the women, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans who served the nation. Perhaps most important, the book also examines the legacy bequeathed by these veterans to later generations who served in uniform on new battlefields around the world.
Author: Ruth Milkman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780252013577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"By analyzing the process of work in both the electrical and the automobile industries, the supplies of male and female labor available to each, the varying degrees of labor-intensive work, the proportion of labor costs to total costs, and the extent of male resistance to female entry into the industry before, during, and after the war, Milkman offers a historically grounded and detailed examination of the evolution, function, and reproduction of job segregation by sex." -- Journal of American History "Analytic sophistication is coupled with a powerfully rendered narrative: the reader strides briskly along, enjoying one provocative insight after another while simultaneously absorbed by the drama of the events." -- Women's Review of Books
Author: Ronald W. Schatz
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780252014383
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karen Pastorello
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0252032306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The extraordinary life of labor activist, immigrant, and feminist, Bessie Abramowitz Hillman