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Rosie the Rubber Worker: Women Workers in Akron’s Rubber Factories during World War II

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On this richly illustrated book Kathleen L. Endres examines the lives of women working within the rubber industry in World War II.Endres points out that ladies weren’t new to the factories of Akron. Years before the war, many women had been balancing their home lives with working in these factories. And whilst the war did offer new opportunities to such groups as African Americans, women had been present within the rubber industry for decades, relegated to the lower paid “less skilled” jobs, which ceaselessly required more manual dexterity than the roles left for the “skilled” labor of men.Drawing upon heretofore unavailable archival materials and oral histories, Rosie the Rubber Worker offers readers a personal in addition to scholarly account of the era and highlights the necessary role many women played in wartime production and how their work affected their lives all through the war and after.

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