Between Taylorism and Dénatalité: Women Welfare Supervisors and the Boundaries of Difference in French Metalworking Factories, 1917-1930
Title | Between Taylorism and Dénatalité: Women Welfare Supervisors and the Boundaries of Difference in French Metalworking Factories, 1917-1930 |
Publication Type | Book Chapter |
Year of Publication | 1992 |
Authors | Downs, Laura Lee |
Editor | Helly, Dorothy O., and Susan M. Reverby |
Book Title | Gendered Domains: Rethinking Public and Private in Women’s History |
Pagination | 289-302 |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
City | Ithaca, NY |
Abstract | Studying women’s labor history often means looking for women in places they are not meant to be, for instance, on the metalworking shop floor. The middle-class “lady welfare superintendent” (surintendante d’usine) was an especially unlikely traveler in the notionally all-male and distinctly proletarian world of the metals factory. Yet her presence in this world was no accident. Employers brought the surintendante into their factories during World War I for the sole purpose of attending to the health and welfare of the new female work force. In this chapter, the author argues that the use of these surintendantes by management was, in actuality, a part of their efforts to control working-class family life. |
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