Women at the Gates

Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia

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ID19922175
AuthorsWendy Z Goldman (0000-0001-8673-7908, Carnegie Mellon University, corresponding author)
Year2002
Publication date2002-02-25
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueWomen at the Gates (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511511868
OpenAlexW4236138104
Open LibraryOL7753800M
ISBN9780511511868
LanguageEN
Citations received23

In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. Even more striking was the critical role of women: in no country of the world did women come to constitute such a significant part of the working class in so short a time. They composed a larger percentage of the working class, filled an unprecedented share of jobs in heavy industry, and served as the first targeted 'reserve' for Soviet labour policy and recruitment. As women undercut the strict hierarchies of skill and gender within the factories, they forced male workers to re-examine their ideas about 'masculine' and 'feminine' work, and women's role in the work place. Using new Russian archival materials, Women at the Gates is the first social history of Soviet women workers in the 1930s

Annals · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Heavy industry · Industrialisation · Middle class · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Work (physics) · Working class · Engineering · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Current Events · Economic policy · Employment · Europe · Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union · European history: from c 1900 · Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) · Industrialization · Labor & Industrial Relations - General · Russia · Social conditions · Social Science · Soviet Union · Women · Women's Studies · Women's Studies - General

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