Women Assemble: Women Workers and the New Industries in Inter-War Britain (Routledge Library Editions: Women and Work) - Softcover

Glucksmann, Miriam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032285486 ISBN 13: 9781032285481

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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 relations, and of course gender and class more generally, by means of an original case-study. Taken from a wide variety of sources, it uses a multidisciplinary approach and is brought to life by interviews with people who worked in assembly-line industries during the inter-war period.

This extremely readable study is important to feminists, historians, and sociologists, as well as to all those concerned with issues of gender, class, and the labour process.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032285486
• ISBN 13: 9781032285481
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338