Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War

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Overview

We know who drove in the rivets on airplane assembly lines during World War II. But what about World War I? Who assembled all those fabric-covered biplanes? Who shaped and filled the millions of cartridges that America sent over to the trenches of Europe? Who made the gas masks to protect American soldiers facing chemical warfare for the first time?

Although the World War II posters of Rosie the Riveter and Wendy the Welder remind us of the women who contributed to the nation's war effort in the 1940s, the women workers of World War I are nearly forgotten. In Rosie's Mom, Carrie Brown recovers these women of an earlier generation through lively words and...

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Overview

We know who drove in the rivets on airplane assembly lines during World War II. But what about World War I? Who assembled all those fabric-covered biplanes? Who shaped and filled the millions of cartridges that America sent over to the trenches of Europe? Who made the gas masks to protect American soldiers facing chemical warfare for the first time?

Although the World War II posters of Rosie the Riveter and Wendy the Welder remind us of the women who contributed to the nation's war effort in the 1940s, the women workers of World War I are nearly forgotten. In Rosie's Mom, Carrie Brown recovers these women of an earlier generation through lively words and images. She takes us back to the time when American women abandoned their jobs dipping chocolates, sewing corsets, or canning pork and beans, to contribute to the war effort. Trading their ankle-length skirts and crisp white shirtwaists for coarse bloomers or overalls, they went into the munition plants to face explosives, toxic chemicals, powerful metal-cutting machines, and the sullen hostility of the men in the shops. By the end of the war, notes the author, more than a million American women had become involved in war production. Not only had they proven that women could be trained in technical fields, but they also had forced hazardous industries to adopt new health and safety measures. And they had made a powerful argument for women's voting rights.

In telling the story of these women, Rosie's Mom explores their lives and their work, their leaders and their defenders, their accomplishments and their bitter disappointments. Combining a compelling narrative with copious illustrations, this book will bring these forgotten women back into our collective memory. Moreover, it offers many insights concerning women and industry at a crucial moment in U.S. history.

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In an informative, entertaining style, cultural historian Brown (The Tall Tale in American Folklore) shines a scholarly light on American women who helped win "the war to end all wars." An introduction provides background on girls and women in the work force in the early years of the 20th century. Subsequent chapters explore specific industries, locations, and types of workers, revealing that while some remained in such traditional female occupations as seamstress and laundress, many labored in previously male-dominated businesses like arsenals, foundries, machine shops, and rail yards. An epilog compares these workers with their more celebrated counterparts of World War II. Of particular value are the many photographs, which help bring the book's subjects to life, and the extensive bibliography. The coverage of such diverse areas as American history, women's studies, and labor history, the reasonable price, and the current lack of comparable titles make this an essential purchase for academic and larger public libraries.-M.C. Duhig, Lib. Ctr. of Point Park Coll. & Carnegie Lib., Pittsburgh Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781555535353
  • Publisher: Northeastern University Press
  • Publication date: 10/24/2002
  • Pages: 288
  • Product dimensions: 8.64 (w) x 9.84 (h) x 0.91 (d)

Meet the Author

Carrie Brown is a cultural historian who specializes in exploring the human story behind historic events, artistic creations, and technological change. She is a freelance curator and has mounted exhibits on Maxfield Parrish, the bicycle, the automobile, and the airplane. She is the author of The Tall Tale in American Folklore and Literature and numerous award-winning exhibition catalogues. She lives in Etna, New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rosie's Mom
1 Prelude: Forgotten Women 3
2 Bread or Revolution: New York, 1913-1914 21
3 From Corsets to Cartridges: Bridgeport, 1915-1916 45
4 The Great Migration: Chicago, 1917 69
5 Mobilizing Woman Power: Washington, 1917-1918 95
6 On the Shop Floor: 1918 125
7 Demobilized: Streetcars and Railroads, 1918-1919 159
Epilogue: 1945 191
Acknowledgments 199
A Note on the Illustrations 201
Notes 203
Bibliography 221
Index 233
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