Employment of women in the manufacture of cannon and small arms in 1942 [electronic resource] / by Margaret Kay Anderson.

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Title	Employment of women in the manufacture of cannon and small arms in 1942 [electronic resource] / by Margaret Kay Anderson.
Item Number	l0078
Creator	Anderson, Margaret Kay.
Creator (Corporate)	United States. Women's Bureau.
Government Publisher	U.S. Government Printing Office
Original Date	1943
Physical Description	iv, 36 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	Bulletin of the Women's Bureau ; no. 192-3
Notes	Title from cover.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents	Introductory -- Small-arms manufacturing and the employment of women -- machine-operation procedures -- Machine operators -- Burring, filing, and polishing -- Assembly:.30-caliber rifles -- Assembly: revolvers and automatic pistols -- Assembly:.50-caliber Browning machine guns -- Assembly:.30-caliber Browning machine guns -- Inspection -- Heat treat, parkerize, barrel tumble, plate, sandblast, weld, forge -- Packing -- Factory unproductive jobs -- Cannon or gun manufacturing and the employment of women -- Rates of pay, hours of work, personnel practices, and training.
Summary	A comparative study of the work women are doing in the United States and of the occupations to which their employment can be extended was made in small-arms and cannon manufacturing during the summer of 1942. Four Government arsenals and four private firms were covered in the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois... The establishments covered ranged in size from 4,000 to 15,000 employees, with a total employment in all 8 plants of about 75,000, 11,000 (15 percent) being women... The analyses of occupations in small-arms and cannon manufacturing are replete with examples of the fallacy of considering war-industry occupations as traditionally men's or women's. In the transition period of hiring great numbers of women, men and women interchange on the same or comparable work on the same shift, or women do work on the day shift performed by men on the night shift. A certain type of work performed extensively by women in one plant may be done entirely by men in another plant... In small-arms and cannon manufacturing women were operating a wider array of types and sizes of machine tools than in any other industry studied by the Women's Bureau. This is significant because the standard machine-tool equipment that women have demonstrated they can operate has a wide application in other war industries. For this reason considerable detail is given in this report as to the specific machine makes and sizes as an indication of what women are doing and can do on machine tools.--p. 1-3.
Topical Terms	World War, 1939-1945--United States. World War, 1939-1945--Women--Employment--United States. World War, 1939-1945--War work--United States. Firearms industry and trade--United States--Employees. Women employees--United States--20th century. Division of labor--United States. Machinists--United States.
Gov Doc Classification	L 13.3:192-3
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	l0078.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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