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Title	Women's wartime jobs in cane-sugar refineries [electronic resource].
Item Number	l0064
Creator (Corporate)	United States. Women's Bureau. United States. Dept. of Labor.
Contributors	De Caux, Caroline A.; Erickson, Ethel.
Government Publisher	U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1945
Physical Description	iv, 20 p. ; 23 cm.
Series	Bulletin of the Women's Bureau ; no. 192-9
Notes	Ethel Erickson, Field Supervisor, obtained most of the data on which the findings [of this report] are based. The report has been written by Caroline A. De Caux.--ii.; Title from cover.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 20).
Table of Contents	Summary -- Character of industry and scope of study -- Trends in employment of women -- Descriptions of women's refinery jobs -- Post-war plans -- Wage rates -- Working hours, shifts, lunch, and rest periods -- Personnel policies and practices -- Absenteeism and turn-over -- Labor organizations.
Summary	In 1943, cane-sugar refineries were producing supplies for military and civilian use as well as for Lend-Lease with a smaller labor force than they employed in 1939, and women were playing an important part in meeting the wartime production schedules of the industry. Normally, refineries employ a small proportion of women. But because most of them are situated in coastal areas where acute labor shortages have developed during the war, and have been unable to secure men to replace those who joined the armed forces or left to work in other industries, they have had to employ women on many jobs that in peacetime were considered suitable only for men. To obtain information on what jobs and to what extent women were or could be used in this industry, representatives of the Women's Bureau visited five refineries -- four in 1943 and one in 1944. In these establishments information was secured on the number of women employed, the type of work they were doing, their wages, working hours, and other employment conditions that affected or reflected the ability of women to perform the industrial jobs available to them in this industry during the war.--p. 1.
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Women--Employment--United States. Sugar factories--United States. Sugar trade--Labor productivity--United States. Wages--Sugar refinery workers--United States. Sugar refinery workers--Labor unions--United States. Women--Promotions--United States. Division of labor--United States.
Gov Doc Classification	L 13.3:192-9
Type	Text
Digital Format	.pdf
Digital Publication Date	Available in digital format: 2001-2002
Digitization Process	Scanned as 300 dpi .jpg; converted to Adobe .pdf
SMU File Name	l0064.pdf
Digital Collection	Historic Government Publications from World War II
Library	Government Information Resources
Publisher	Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University
Rights	These files may be freely used. A high-quality version of these files may be obtained for a fee by contacting ncds@smu.edu.

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