Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Homefront in World War II
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780517597903
Category
Unknown
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
120
Description
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. When America's men went off to war in 1942, millions of women were recruited, through posters and other propaganda, to work at non-traditional jobs. In defense plants, factories, offices, and everywhere else workers were needed, they were--for the first time--well paid and financially independent. But eventually the war ended, and the government and industries that had once persuaded them to work for the war effort now instructed them to return home and take care of their husbands and children. Based on interviews and original research by noted historian Penny Colman, Rosie the Riveter shows young readers how women fought World War II from the home front. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
