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  2. American women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Female factory workers in 1942, Long Beach, California. Esther Bubley's documentary photograph of a woman being taught to drive a streetcar for the Capitol Transit Company in Washington, D. C. U.S. women also performed many kinds of non-military service in organizations such as the American Red Cross and the United Service Organizations (USO ...

  3. List of industrial occupations - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of industrial occupations.Industrial occupations are generally characterized by being manual-labour-intensive and requiring little to no education.

  4. Mary Anderson (labor leader) - Wikipedia

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    Throughout her lifetime, Anderson held a large range of roles, rising from a factory worker to the Director of the Women's Bureau in the United States Department of Labor. Anderson's work to protect the rights of women in the workplace made no small impact on the lives of working women across the country.

  5. Occupation of factories - Wikipedia

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    The workers occupied the factory, forming a "permanent assembly" with the goal of not only winning back the lost jobs, but converting the plant into a publicly funded factory that is, in the words of one of the worker-organizers, "free from profiteering, free from fraud, a factory under workers’ control."

  6. Rosie the Riveter - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who joined the military. She is widely recognized in the "We Can Do It!" poster as a symbol of American feminism and women's economic advantage. [3] Similar images of women war workers appeared in other countries such as Britain and Australia. The idea of Rosie the ...

  7. Factory worker - Wikipedia

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  8. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The factory system contributed to the growth of urban areas as large numbers of workers migrated into the cities in search of work in the factories. Nowhere was this better illustrated than the mills and associated industries of Manchester, nicknamed " Cottonopolis ", and the world's first industrial city. [ 161 ]

  9. Textile industry - Wikipedia

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    It was commonly acknowledged that the role of a woman as a textile worker was a "secondary occupation and that a woman's real work was raising children and running the household”. [ 20 ] This socially accepted convention was illustrated in the hiring process of female textile workers, employers preferred “hiring women who were young and ...