Laura Lee Dawns, Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939 (1995)

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[...] The comparative study highlights that in two different nations (France and England), metal employers from both nations first allowed women in their factories, before implementing new "work processes and managerial structures" in order to adapt the industry to this new type of workforce. 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. [...]

[...] Laura Lee Dawns, Manufacturing Inequality: Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939 (1995) "Laura Lee Dawns, Manufacturing Inequality : Gender Division in the French and British Metalworking Industries, 1914-1939, Ithaca, Cornell University Press - Introduction" 1. Vocabulary - Words linked to gender: women - "middle-class feminists" - "male factory workers" - men´s industries - "sexual division" - men - "gender division" - "male world" - "female workers" - sexes - "male-female differences" - "natural differences" -"gendered language" - "gendered bases" - "female workforce" - "women´s labor history" - "patriarchy" - "women´s oppression" - "female labor" - "domestic roles". [...]

[...] 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. Translation "Manufacturing Inequality" constitue une étude comparative du processus historique complexe dans lequel les employeurs du secteur métallurgique, issus de deux nations et cultures différentes, ont d´abord introduit les femmes au sein de leurs usines, avant de réorganiser les méthodes de travail et les structures de gestion, et ce dans le but d´adapter les femmes à cet environnement de travail, mais aussi d´adapter ce dernier à cette nouvelle main d´?uvre. [...]

[...] Thus, because of the conflict, ladies were given the opportunity to work in a "male industry", something that was refused to them in a patriarchal society. 2. Explain "And together, the two tell a third story": Out of the story of employers in the metal industry and women introduced in this "male industry" begins a third story, that of the social division based on gender that will occur in the metalworking industry in France and England as a result of the arrival of women in this male world. [...]