Women at the gates : gender and industry in Stalin's Russia / Wendy Z. Goldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Wendy Z., author.

Series:

ACLS Fellows’ publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Employment--Soviet Union--History.

Women.

Industrialization--Soviet Union--History.

Industrialization.

Women--Soviet Union--Social conditions.

Soviet Union--Economic policy--1917-1928.

Soviet Union.

Soviet Union--Economic policy--1928-1932.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Guarding the Gates to the Working Class: Women in Industry, 1917-1929

2. The Struggle over Working-Class Feminism

3. The Gates Come Tumbling Down

4. From Exclusion to Recruitment

5. "The Five-Year Plan for Women": Planning Above, Counterplanning Below

6. Planning and Chaos: The Struggle for Control

7. Gender Relations in Industry: Voices from the Point of Production

8. Rebuilding the Gates to the Working Class.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780511084362

0511084366

9781107120150

1107120152

9781280160240

1280160241

9781139146418

1139146416

9780511118609

0511118600

9780511066849

0511066848

9780511060533

051106053X

9780511304484

051130448X

9780511511868

0511511868

9780511068973

0511068972

OCLC:

475924024

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05242 hdl