Economic effects of the world war upon women and children in Great Britain

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Economic effects of the world war upon women and children in Great Britain

by Irene Osgood Andrews, Margaret A. Hobbs

EN·~8 hours·19 chapters

Chapters

19 total

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

12:04

ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE WORLD WARON WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN GREAT BRITAIN

0:04

CHAPTER I Introductory Summary

25:23

CHAPTER II Work of Women and Children before the World War

12:09

CHAPTER III First Months of the World War— Labor’s Attitude toward the War— Unemployment among Women Workers

14:34

CHAPTER IV Extension of Employment of Women

42:04

CHAPTER V Organized Efforts to Recruit Women’s Labor

50:16

CHAPTER VI Sources of Additional Women Workers

17:41

CHAPTER VII Training for War Work

5:40

CHAPTER VIII Women and the Trade Unions

8:32
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Description

At head of title: Carnegie endowment for international peace. Division of economics and history.

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Language

en

Duration

~8 hours (494K characters)

Series

Preliminary economic studies of the war, 4

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

New York: Oxford University Press, 1921.

Credits

The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

Jan 6, 2024

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the authors

Irene Osgood Andrews

Irene Osgood Andrews

1879–1963

A progressive-era writer and labor reformer, she explored how industrial work shaped the lives of women and children. Her books and public work helped bring social policy, wages, and workplace protections into sharper focus.

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Margaret A. Hobbs

Known today mainly for a single surviving book credit, this early 20th-century writer helped document how World War I changed the working lives of women and children in Great Britain. Her work has lasted because it captures a major social shift with a clear, research-driven approach.

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