Women in metal industry, comparative study, World War I, social division, gender, metalworking industry
This document presents a comparative study of the historical process of women's introduction in metal industry factories in France and England during World War I, highlighting the social division based on gender that occurred as a result.
[...] The originality comes from the fact that she wants to challenge the traditional vision of scholars regarding women's labour history that is capitalism or patriarchy are the primarily sources of women's oppression at work, as these two structures were not 'polluted' by each other and were purely separated. With the example of metalworking during World War this assumption is challenged and that is what Laura Lee Dawns seeks to prove. c. The 'gendered skills attributed to women' are their 'technical capacity to perform involved, rapid or repetitive work'. [...]
[...] Thus, hierarchies and tasks were allocated in accordance with how the differences between male and female were perceived in terms of work skills, which led to an inevitable inequality structure. e. The demand for weapons that went on after the end of World War I deeply changed the organization of the metal industry. Moreover, the arrival of women in the industry, and the fact that it was not a temporary process, changed also the production process which became much more fragmented. please provide the text you need translated, and I will deliver the translations in English, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, following the specified guidelines and output format. [...]
[...] the Kaiser handed British women an opportunity which their own fathers and brothers had ever denied them In the context of World War the Kaiser refers to Wilhelm II, the German emperor during this time and a prominent figure of this conflict. By saying this, the Scottish lady means that due to this conflict, women were for the first time allowed to work in a typical 'men's industry', the metalworking industry, because men were needed on the frontlines to fight and factories were in need of a workforce. Thus, due to the conflict, ladies were given the opportunity to work in a 'male industry', something that was refused to them in a patriarchal society. [...]
[...] Pressed by a rapidly growing demand for arms, and with the usual workforce having left the factories for the front, employers found themselves experimenting with new work methods as they welcomed workers en masse. What is perhaps most significant is the identical manner in which French and British employers faced this challenge. Indeed, despite differences in political systems, industrial organizations, and even levels of industrial development, employers in these two nations struggled to adapt to these transformations, both technologically and in terms of the workforce, by integrating a new gender-based distinction within a system where skill disparities already existed. [...]
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