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Author Goldman, Wendy Z.

Title Women at the gates : gender and industry in Stalin's Russia / Wendy Z. Goldman
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Guarding the gates to the working class : women in industry, 1917-1929 -- The struggle over working-class feminism -- The gates come tumbling down -- From exclusion to recruitment -- "The Five-Year Plan for women" : planning above, counterplanning below -- Planning and chaos : the struggle for control -- Gender relations in industry : voices from the point of production -- Rebuilding the gates to the working class -- Conclusion
Summary "In the annals of industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. The vast transformations that shook western Europe over the centuries--proletarianization, industrialization, urbanization--were in the Soviet Union telescoped into a mere decade. The working class grew at an unprecedented rate, changing in size and social composition. Even more striking was the critical role of women: in no country of the world did they come to constitute such a significant part of the working class in so short a time. As women flooded industries traditionally dominated by men, they undercut strict hierarchies within the factories and forced male workers to reexamine their ideas about skill, 'masculine' and 'feminine' work, and the role of women in the workplace. The state's use of female labor was closely intertwined with the great upheavals of early Soviet history: accumulation of capital for the industrialization drive, the urban food crisis, collectivization, and peasant migration to the cities. Based on new Russian archival materials, Women at the Gates is the first social history of Soviet women workers in the 1930s. It is the story of a world remade, from above and from below, as planners 'regendered' the entire economy and women entered the ranks of waged labor in unprecedented numbers."--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Women -- Employment -- Soviet Union -- History
Industrialization -- Soviet Union -- History
Women -- Soviet Union -- Social conditions
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Economic policy
Industrialization
Women -- Employment
Women -- Social conditions
Arbeiterklasse
Wirtschaftspolitik
Frau
Vrouwen.
Arbeidsmarkt.
Industrialisatie.
Stalinisme.
Sekseverschillen.
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1917-1928. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125732
Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1928-1932. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125734
Subject Soviet Union
Sowjetunion
Russia -- History -- 1917-1991, Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1917-1928.
Russia -- History -- 1917-1991, Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1928-1932.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511511868
0511511868
0511066848
9780511066849
0511118600
9780511118609
9780511068973
0511068972
1280160241
9781280160240
9786610160242
6610160244
0521780640
9780521780643
Other Titles Gender and industry in Stalin's Russia