Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and patriarchy in Conflict

1986 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 1203
Author(s):  
Neal A. Ferguson ◽  
Penny Summerfield
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
War Production ◽  
Second World

Water powers: the Second World War and the mobilization of hydroelectricity in Canada, the United States, and Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Cohn ◽  
Matthew Evenden ◽  
Marc Landry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
World War ◽  
Hydroelectric Development ◽  
War Effort ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Production ◽  
Second World

AbstractComparing three of the major hydroelectric power-producing countries during the war – Canada, the United States, and Germany – this article considers the implications of expanding hydroelectricity for war production and strategy, and how wartime decisions structured the longer-term evolution of large technological systems. Despite different starting points, all three countries pursued similar strategies in attempting to mobilize hydroelectricity for the war effort. The different access to and use of hydro in these states produced a vital economic and ultimately military advantage or disadvantage. The global dimensions of hydroelectric development during the war, moreover, demonstrate that this conflict was a turning point in the history of electrification.

The Womanpower Problem in Britain during the Second World War

1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 925-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Women Studies ◽  
Winston Churchill ◽  
The Status ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The Government ◽  
Second World ◽  
Status Of Women

At the national women's conference convened by the government in September 1943 Winston Churchill assured the women delegates that the contribution to the war effort by British women had ‘definitely altered those social and sex balances which years of convention had established’. His belief that the war had brought about profound changes in the status of women was shared by contemporary authors attempting to evaluate the effect of the war on British women. Studies written near the end of the war by Margaret Goldsmith and Gertrude Williams refer to a wartime ‘revolution’ in the position of women. Both authors defined this revolution primarily in terms of the changed position of women workers.

Women Workers in the Second World War

1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Summerfield
Keyword(s):  
Women Workers ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Second World
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