{"product_id":"rosie-the-rubber-worker-endres-9780873386678","title":"Rosie the Rubber Worker: Women Workers in Akron's Rubber Factories During World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this richly illustrated book Kathleen L. Endres examines the lives of women working in the rubber industry in World War II. Women who entered the industrial workplace during the war were popularized by Rosie the Riveter, a cultural icon that is perhaps one of the most enduring images of women's mobilization on the American home front. Posters, magazine covers, popular music, and advertisements all romanticized the vision of patriotic women entering the factory and picking up \"where the men left off.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndres points out that women were not new to the factories of Akron. Years before the war, many women had been balancing their home lives with working in these factories. And while the war did offer new opportunities to such groups as African Americans, women had been present in the rubber industry for decades, relegated to the lower paid \"less skilled\" jobs, which often required more manual dexterity than the jobs left for the \"skilled\" labor of men.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing upon heretofore unavailable archival materials and oral histories, \u003cem\u003eRosie the Rubber Worker \u003c\/em\u003eoffers readers a personal as well as scholarly account of the era and highlights the important role many women played in wartime production and how their work affected their lives during the war and after.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Endres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0873386671\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780873386678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kent State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.86h x 8.79w x 0.74d","brand":"Endres","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013825802495,"sku":"9780873386678","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c35aa34-f2c8-4eed-be13-f3211c599e74.jpg?v=1767745003","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rosie-the-rubber-worker-endres-9780873386678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}