| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Stephanie A. Carpenter. On the Farm Front: The Women's Land Army in World War II. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press. 2003. Pp. viii, 214. $40.00.

The story of Rosie the Riveter is a familiar one with its emphasis on industrial work for women previously reserved for men only. During World War II, millions of women entered well-paying factory jobs to churn out military equipment at a record pace in order to win the war. In the process, they broke long-standing gender barriers confining women to seasonal and unskilled blue-collar work that paid far less than the jobs to which they now had access. Learning how to rivet, weld, and handle complex technology in defense training classes, women flocked to war production urban areas to fatten their paychecks and do their bit to bring American soldiers home. The image of these women in the media was an egalitarian one, but it conveyed the ultimately misleading message that most of them were middle class and eager to become full-time homemakers once peace was declared. In fact, most were working-class women who had been in the labor force before Pearl Harbor, and eighty percent of them wanted to keep their war jobs.

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