Conflict becomes inevitable:
Conflict becomes inevitable Jan 1941 The ‘Four Freedoms’
Mar 1942 ‘Lend Lease’
August 1941 ‘The Atlantic Charter’
Undeclared ‘Atlantic War’
7 Dec 1941 Pearl Harbour
Moving to a War Economy:
Moving to a War Economy Jan 1942 ‘War Production Board’
‘Office of Price Administration’
Running the War
Unemployment only 1.2%
‘National War Labour Board’
‘Goodbye Babies’
Federal childcare
Women at Work:
Women at Work 6m entered war industries
More married women
Older
Discrimination
‘Rosie the Riveter’
Long term changes
Women welders on the way to their job at the Todd Erie Basin dry dock, c.1943:
Women welders on the way to their job at the Todd Erie Basin dry dock, c.1943
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long BeBeach, Calif. 1942:
Women workers install fixtures and assemblies to a tail fuselage section of a B-17 bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long BeBeach, Calif. 1942
Women aircraft workers finishing transparent bomber noses at the Douglas Aircraft Co. plant in Long Beach, Calif., 1942:
Women aircraft workers finishing transparent bomber noses at the Douglas Aircraft Co. plant in Long Beach, Calif., 1942
Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant, New Britain, Conn., 1943:
Women welders at the Landers, Frary, and Clark plant, New Britain, Conn., 1943
Older workers return – Kentucky, 1942:
Older workers return – Kentucky, 1942