Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory

Constance Bowman Reid

ISBN 10: 156098368X / ISBN 13: 9781560983682

Editore: Smithsonian Books, 2004

Very Good Condition - May show some limited signs of wear and may have a remainder mark. Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. Codice articolo mon0000025992

Riassunto:

   In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live with aluminum shavings in their hair, and get along with supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life. 
   
   They also learned that wearing their factory slacks on the street caused men to treat them in a way for which their "dignified schoolteacher-hood" hadn't prepared them. At times charming, hilarious, and incredibly perceptive, Slacks and Calluses brings into focus an overlooked part of the war effort, one that forever changed the way the women were viewed in America.

Informazioni sull?autore: Constance Bowman Reid has written many highly acclaimed biographies of twentieth-century mathematicians. She lives in San Francisco, CA.

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Titolo: Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber ...
Casa editrice: Smithsonian Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: paperback
Illustratore: Clara Marie Allen
Condizione: Very Good