Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers during World War II

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. WOMEN IN T H E AMERICAN REVOLUTION 3
6. Eighteenth-Century American Women in Peace and War: The Case of the Loyalists 21
7. "As Thy Days, So Shall Thy Strength Be": North Carolina Planter Women in War and Peace 45
8. Emily Lyles Harris: A Piedmont Farmer During the Civil War 53
9. THE WAR WITHIN A WAR: Women Nurses in the Union Army 65
10. THE ROMANCE AND REALITY OF DEFEAT: SOUTHERN WOMEN IN 1865 81
11. Black Women and the Great War: Mobilization and Reform in the South 93
12. Southern Women in the War: The North Carolina Woman's Committee, 1917-1919 113
13. "THE MOTHERS OF THE RACE" IN WORLD WAR I: THE NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD AND WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 146
14. NOTES AND DOCUMENTS 170
15. Women Workers and World War I: The American Railroad Industry, A Case Study 181
16. Searching for the Antecedents of Affirmative Action: The National War Labor Board and the Cleveland Women Conductors in World War I 205
17. "Peace is a woman9s job.. " Jeannette Rankin and American Foreign Policy: The Origins of Her Pacifism 236
18. "Peace is a woman's job.. Jeannette Rankin and American Foreign Policy: Her Lifework as a Pacifist 270
19. The Woman's Peace Party and The Moral Basis for Women's Pacifism 308
20. The "Womanpower" Campaign: Advertising and Recruitment Propaganda during World War II 326
21. The Working-Class Woman and Recruitment Propaganda during World War II: Class Differences in the Portrayal of War Work 341
22. WOMEN WORKERS IN WORLD WAR II: MICHIGAN AS A TEST CASE 357
23. Last Hired, First Fired: Black Women Workers during World War II 386
24. WORKING WOMEN AND WORLD WAR II 402
25. Riveters, Volunteers and WACS: Women in Mobile During World War II 422
26. Japanese American Women During World War II 444
27. Copyright Information 467
28. Index 471