Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World War II and Reconversion by Amy Kesselman

Fleeting Opportunities: Women Shipyard Workers in Portland and Vancouver During World War II and Reconversion

Amy Kesselman

204 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

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This book tells the story of the daily lives of women industrial workers in World War II shipyards. It focuses on their struggle against the persistence of occupational segregation, the sexual and racial hierarchy of the shipyard work force, and t...

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