| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Carrie Brown. Rosie's Mom: Forgotten Women Workers of the First World War. Boston: Northeastern University Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 240. $35.00.
Carrie Brown's illustrated narrative provides a close view of women industrial workers during the first great war of the twentieth century. Written more for a general audience than an academic one, it uses a large number of compelling pictures along with vivid descriptions of work processes, discussions of the hazards and rewards of nontraditional work for women, and some biographical vignettes to examine this significant chapter in American women's labor history. Brown worries that these women workers have been forgotten largely because they have never received the kind of iconic representation in popular culture associated with World War II's "Rosie the Riveter" and seeks to balance the scales with her book.	1
For academics this is a familiar tale well told. Brown describes the work lives of American women workers in the years before the Great War, focusing on the immigrant backgrounds of many, the labor struggles of this period, and the workers' relationships with Progressive-era women. She then offers a close examination of women employed in various defense industries and manufacturing centers, primarily located in the urban northeast. Finally, she documents the social and political dynamics that promoted women's expulsion from their steady and lucrative wartime jobs, including the hostility of male coworkers and their unions, employer decisions, and the actions of a federal government more concerned with fostering labor stability than with workplace equity.	. . .

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