Women doing men's work and women doing women's work: Female work and pay in British wartime engineering

被引：5

作者：

Hart, Robert A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Stirling, Dept Econ, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland

来源：

EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY | 2007年 / 44卷 / 01期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

British engineering; World War II; women engineers; pay and hours; female-male wage differentials;

D O I：

10.1016/j.eeh.2005.10.005

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Extreme demand pressures coupled with acute skill shortages in the run up to World War 11 caused British engineering companies to break down existing production processes into smaller constituent parts. This allowed the employment of persons trained over narrower ranges of skills and helped to create an exponential growth of female jobs, from 10.5% of total engineering employment in 1939 to 35.2% by 1943. Women were officially classified into those doing men's work and those doing women's work. Using a unique data set provided by the Engineering Employers Federation, this paper examines female work and pay from 1935 (the first year of rearmament) to 1942 (the peak of production activity) in more detail than has been previously undertaken. It features the pay and hours of piece- and time-rated women, female-male wage ratios, and an assessment of the war's longer term impact on the female labor market. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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页码：114 / 130

页数：17