In the area of the whole world economy, it can be found that the war industry contributes a lot. As one of the most developed countries in the world, America's government put the war industry on the ...most important location by large investment and also some kinds of policy support. In this paper, in order to research the total situation of the development and reformation on America's war industry, some information of America's war industry is put forward first. After that, the ownership structure, the forms of enterprise organization and also the operation mechanism in the military enterprise are analyzed. Then, the reform measures which are used by America's war industry are described in the following part. After the detailed description, some characteristics can be concluded through the analysis above. Besides, two inspirations for China's war industry can be gained from the research.
At 7 a.m. on June 18, 1943, fourteen children between the ages of five and eleven walked through the doors of San Francisco’s first public child care center, located in the McKinley School. The ...children played with dolls, stacked blocks, and read books. At noon they became members of the “clean plate club” by finishing their lunch of macaroni and cheese, coleslaw, bread, milk, and Jello.¹ By the time the last mother came to pick up her child at 7 p.m., thirty-five more children had been enrolled. The opening of the McKinley center was the culmination of four months of
British Demobilization Plans Clothier, Robert C.
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
01/1919, Volume:
81, Issue:
1
Journal Article
The author discusses the implications of wartime developments in psychology to the following fields: selection and classification of personnel, improvements in criteria, employee training, measuring ...and influencing employee attitudes, and the psychological aspects of machine design. The last field requires the co-operation of psychologist and engineer in the process of designing a machine.
Attitudes of workers toward unions, wages, prices, and industry were obtained during May 10-14, 1942 from 1000 interviews with 695 industrial workers and 305 "white collar" workers, or their wives, ...located in 20 cities throughout the United States. 36.5% were union members, or their wives. The questionnaire used is presented in full. Among the results reported are the following: In industrial homes about half the workers were members of a union; in homes of "white collar" workers, about one-tenth belonged to a union. A large majority believed workers should not be forced to stay in a union against their wishes. Union and non-union respondents differed on the closed shop issue. A majority believed that unions should not be allowed to organize new unions during the war, that the government should fix prices and rents, that big manufacturing companies are now doing all they can to help the war effort, and that union leaders are responsible for strikes. A plurality believed that hourly wage rates should be fixed and that companies should be allowed to keep a large part of their earnings to help them change back to peacetime work after the war.
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Remembering the 1914–18 War has a complex and contentious history in Ireland. Recent scholarship has re-examined the complexity of the Irish experience during this period, both by addressing the ...place of Irishmen in the Allied Forces and by retrieving the contribution of women towards the formation of the Irish Free State. However, the reinstatement of the female experience within the nationalist narrative has overlooked other female experiences of wartime in Ireland which were significantly different from those of their British counterparts. This essay examines an aspect of the ‘Home Front’ in Ireland when women's involvement in war industries, particularly in the Dublin munitions factories, are seen as crucial to the European war effort. Though the revolutionary, armed female volunteer is recognisably a figure of modernity, the female munitions worker, operating within the technological machinery of warfare, is also one. This essay explores the mobilization of women within the Irish war industries and suggests that there is still much work to be done in uncovering the extent of Irishwomen's contribution to the military war effort. Considering the complexities and contradictions of these parallel frameworks for modern Irish womanhood, this essay addresses how the Irish case adds important new dimensions to our understanding of the war's wide-ranging impacts on concepts of gender and the public roles of women that continue to resonate as the twentieth century unfolds.
Through a historical case study of Akron, Ohio during World War II, a story emerged of how retailers used their fashion advertisements to influence women to take factory jobs in war industries. ...Akron, Ohio served as a case study because it had three nationally linked department stores, a major newspaper, and the city's war industries were the nation's second largest employer of women during World War II. Because voluntary recruitment efforts were successful, the government did not act on its planned national draft for work that would have included women. As the culture negotiated women's role in the marketplace, pants came to symbolize women's participation in the war effort. The appearance and adoption of pants offers support for the SI theory of fashion.
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