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Author:
Meyer, Stephen, 1942- author.
Title:
Manhood on the line : working-class masculinities in the American heartland / Stephen Meyer.
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xiii, 247 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Automobile industry workers--United States--History.
Working class--United States--History.
Sexual division of labor--United States.
Women employees--United States.
Discrimination in employment--United States.
Ford Motor Company--History.
Ford Motor Company.
Automobile industry workers.
Discrimination in employment.
Sexual division of labor.
Women employees.
Working class.
United States.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: forms and meanings of working-class manhood -- Lost manhood : mass production and auto worker masculinity -- Reclaiming manhood : shop culture, industrial unionism, and the derogation of women, 1920s and 1930s -- "Rats, finks, and stool pigeons" : the disreputable manhood of factory spies in the 1920s and 1930s -- Fighting to provide : the battle to organize the Ford River Rouge Plant, 1930-1945 -- Fashioning dense masculine space : industrial unionism and altered shop-floor relations, 1935-1960s -- The female "invasion" : women and the male workplace, 1940-1945 -- The challenge to white manhood: black men and women move to white male jobs, 1940-1945 -- Conclusion: the more things change, the more they stay the same -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.
Series:
The working class in american history
ISBN:
0252081544
9780252081545
0252040058
9780252040054
OCLC:
(OCoLC)926062553
LCCN:
2015035920
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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