Women At the Gates - Gender and Industry in Stalin''s Russia

Klappentext The first social history of Soviet women workers in the 1930s. Zusammenfassung In the 1930s! the Soviet working class grew at an unprecedented rate! changing in size and social composition. Women at the Gates is the story of a world remade! from above and from below! as women entered waged labor in unprecedented numbers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Guarding the gates to the working class: women in industry! 1917-1929; 2. The struggle over working class feminism; 3. The gates come tumbling down; 4. From exclusion to recruitment; 5. The five-year plan for women: planning above! counter planning below; 6. Planning and chaos: the struggle for control; 7. Gender relations in industry: voices from the point of production; 8. Rebuilding the gates to the working class; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Wendy Z. Goldman, Wendy Z. (Carnegie Mellon University Goldman, Goldman Wendy Z.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2002
• EAN: 9780521780643
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78064-3
• No. of pages: 314
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Russia, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, HISTORY / Russia / General