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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Wartime Shipyard written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Archibald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520319702
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Wartime Shipyard written by Katherine Archibald and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1947.
Author : Katherine Archibald
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wartime Shipyard written by Katherine Archibald and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening first-hand account of life in a WWII shipyard from a woman's perspective In 1942, Katherine Archibald, a graduate student at Berkeley, left the halls of academe to spend two years working in a nearby Oakland shipyard. She arrived with a host of preconceptions about the American working class, race relations and the prospect for their improvement, and wartime unity. Her experience working in a shipyard where women were seen as intruders, where "Okies" and black migrants from the South were regarded with barely-disguised hatred, and where trade unions preferred protecting their turf to defending workers' rights, threw much of her liberal faith into doubt. Archibald's 1947 book about her experiences, Wartime Shipyard: A Study in Social Disunity, remains a classic account of life and labor on the home front. This new edition includes an introduction written by historians Eric Arnesen and Alex Lichtenstein, who explore Archibald's work in light of recent scholarship on women and African Americans in the wartime workplace.
Author : Katherine Archibald
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wartime Shipyard written by Katherine Archibald and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Veronico
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738547176
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (471 download)
Download or read book World War II Shipyards by the Bay written by Nicholas Veronico and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark, frenzied years of World War II, the San Francisco Bay Area was the geographic center of a $6.3 billion West Coast shipbuilding industry. Stretching from the Golden Gate to Vallejo to Sunnyvale, 14 Bay Area yards launched many of the ships that helped save the free world. Basalt Rock of Napa, Bethlehem Steel of San Francisco and Alameda, Hunters Point and Mare Island Naval Shipyards, Joshua Hendy Iron Works of Sunnyvale, Marinship of Sausalito, Permanente Metals in Richmond, and Western Pipe and Steel in South San Francisco are names that still conjure memories for many locals of one of the most impassioned war efforts in human history. Offering new opportunities for African Americans and women, recruiters searched the nation for workers who relocated here by the thousands. These motivated men and women delivered Liberty cargo ships like the SS Robert E. Peary, built in seven and a half days, a shipbuilding record that stands to this day.
Author : Chauncey Del French
Publisher : Oregon State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870710483
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Waging War on the Home Front written by Chauncey Del French and published by Oregon State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States' entry into World War II necessitated rapid mobilization of the country's shipbuilding industry. A massive national effort was needed to build ships faster than they were being sunk by the enemy. This book recounts in intelligent and delightful detail how that need was met by the home-front workforce. Chauncey French and his wife, Jessie, were among the hundreds of thousands of workers recruited by Henry Kaiser for the nation's wartime emergency shipbuilding program. The memoir that French began while working as a pipe fitter in the Kaiser shipyard in Vancouver, Washington, is a compelling account of how the war changed the lives of those at home. His first-hand stories relate the sometimes tense and often humorous intermingling of people-including women and African Americans in unprecedented numbers-from different backgrounds who learned to work together for a common cause. The editors have selected and annotated more than 150 illustrations that capture the human drama, teamwork, and camaraderie that made the incredible level of production at the shipyards possible. Introductory essays, an appendix, notes, additional reading, and an index augment the author's lively narrative. Book jacket.
Author : Amy Kesselman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438408854
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Fleeting Opportunities written by Amy Kesselman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the daily lives of women industrial workers in World War II shipyards. It focuses on their struggle against the persistence of occupational segregation, the sexual and racial hierarchy of the shipyard work force, and the pervasive emphasis on female sexuality which served as a constant reminder that women were transient and marginal imposters. In addition, Fleeting Opportunities demonstrates that despite the myth that these women yearned to return to their kitchens, in fact many wanted to continue using their wartime skills in the postwar period. However, finding themselves excluded from jobs by union and management, those who continued to work ended up in low-paying, predominantly female occupations.
Author : Robert La Du
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1683488016
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Her Finest Hour: Shipbuilding in the Portland Area during World War II written by Robert La Du and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-01-05 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work describes the monumental accomplishments of the World War II shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, they built and launched thousands of vessels—Liberty ships, Victory ships, tankers, aircraft carriers, submarine chasers, and many kinds of landing craft—to help defeat the Axis powers and preserve the way of life of the free world. Robert La Du viewed firsthand these activities from his home overlooking shipyards on the Willamette River. His father worked at Albina shipyard, his sister worked at Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard, and he himself, as a high school student, worked nights at Commercial Iron and Steel shipyard. These experiences inform and enhance the pages of Her Finest Hour.
Author : Ian Johnston
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184832216X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book A Shipyard at War written by Ian Johnston and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and the completion of the wartime programmes in 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Sons built a vast range of vessels _ major warships down to destroyers and submarines, unusual designs like a seaplane carrier and submarine depot ship, and even a batch of war-standard merchant ships. This makes the yard a particularly good exemplar of the wartime shipbuilding effort. Like most shipyards of the time, Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large-plate cameras that produced pictures of stunning clarity and detail; but unlike most shipyard photography, Clydebank's collection has survived, although relatively few of the images have ever been published. For this book some 200 of the most telling were carefully selected, and scanned to the highest standards, depicting in unprecedented detail every aspect of the yard's output, from the liner Aquitania in 1914 to the cruiser Enterprise, completed in 1920.??Although ships are the main focus of the book, the photos also chronicle the impact of the war on working conditions in the yard and, perhaps most noticeable in the introduction of women in large numbers to the workforce. With lengthy and informative captions, and an authoritative introduction by Ian Johnston, this book is a vivid portrait of a lost industry at the height of its success.
Author : Ian Johnston
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848323018
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book A Shipyard at War written by Ian Johnston and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of photos illustrating the work of the famed British shipbuilders of World War I. Although best known for large liners and capital ships, between 1914 and 1920 the Clydebank shipyard of John Brown & Co. built a vast range of vessels—major warships down to destroyers and submarines, unusual designs like a seaplane carrier and submarine depot ship, and even a batch of war-standard merchant ships. This makes the yard a particularly good example of the wartime shipbuilding effort. Clydebank employed professional photographers to record the whole process of construction, using large plate cameras that produced pictures of stunning clarity and detail; but unlike most shipyard photography, Clydebank’s collection has survived, although relatively few of the images have ever been published. For this book, some two hundred of the most telling were carefully selected and scanned to the highest standards, depicting in unprecedented detail every aspect of the yard’s output, from the liner Aquitania in 1913 to the cruiser Enterprise, completed in 1920. Although ships are the main focus of the book, the photos also chronicle the impact of the war on working conditions in the yard—and the introduction of women in large numbers to the workforce. With lengthy and informative captions, and an authoritative introduction by Ian Johnston, this book is a vivid portrait of a lost industry at the height of its success.
Author : Richard Finnie (1906- ed)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Marinship : the history of a wartime shipyard told by some of the peoplewho helped build the ships written by Richard Finnie (1906- ed) and published by . This book was released on with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph L. Scott
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781596292109
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Wilmington Shipyard written by Ralph L. Scott and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nation launched into World War II, the North Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation began building the vessels to ensure victory. Although the brief life of the North Carolina Shipbuilding Company was surrounded by controversy, including location and labor disputes, some 243 Liberty- and Victory-class ships were built in Wilmington between 1942 and 1946 to bolster the United States Navy's World War II fleet. Author Ralph Lee Scott examines the impact of this shipyard and its effect on Wilmington's transformation from a sleepy post-Depression coastal town into a major state industrial center. Workers from around the Southeast pitched in and pulled together to build the ships that would help win the largest global conflict of the twentieth century.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Investigation of Shipyard Profits written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book U.S. Foreign Policy for a Post-War Recovery Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (80) H.R. 4840, (80) H.R. 4579.
Author : Robert R La Du
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781683488002
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Her Finest Hour written by Robert R La Du and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work describes the monumental accomplishments of the World War II shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, they built and launched thousands of vessels--Liberty ships, Victory ships, tankers, aircraft carriers, submarine chasers, and many kinds of landing craft--to help defeat the Axis powers and preserve the way of life of the free world. Robert La Du viewed firsthand these activities from his home overlooking shipyards on the Willamette River. His father worked at Albina shipyard, his sister worked at Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard, and he himself, as a high school student, worked nights at Commercial Iron and Steel shipyard. These experiences inform and enhance the pages of Her Finest Hour.
Author : Richard Finnie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Marinship written by Richard Finnie and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Finnie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Marinship written by Richard Finnie and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
