Rosie the Rubber Worker: Women Workers in Akron's Rubber Factories during World War II

In this richly illustrated book Kathleen L. Endres examines the lives of women working in the rubber industry in World War II. Women who entered the industrial workplace during the war were popularized by Rosie the Riveter, a cultural icon that is perhaps one of the most enduring images of women's mobilization on the American home front. Posters, magazine covers, popular music, and advertisements all romanticized the vision of patriotic women entering the factory and picking up "where the m...