Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, The War, and Social Change details the lives of “the real Rosie the riveters” through oral history. Gluck interviews multiple women that lived during World War 2 as they expose the real aspects of daily life of women during WW2. Throughout this book these interviewee personal stories gives life to the iconic symbol of the Rosie The Riveter character portrayed in the mass distributed poster by J. Howard Miller that became a symbolic depiction of working women during war time as their husbands, sons and fathers went of to war. Gluck also shows how women react to the return of men to the work force as the war ends. Gluck argues that the ‘Rosie’ era was bigger than the players involved and that it had direct
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With this in mind women were to maintain the home meaning cooking, cleaning, taking care of their husbands and kids lives ect. After the depression set in many women were subsequently pushed toward joing the workforce to keep their families together. After the United States entered World War 2 women were called on to help wartime efforts as many of the countries men went off to war. President Roosevelt 's Fireside Chat on Columbus Day of 1942 shifted the nation views on women and Black Americans joining the work forces as help from any source was needed as many of the country men were enlisted to fight in the war. Women were asked to do jobs previously looked at as to high-skilled or inappropriate for women piror to the war like working as a machinist or factory workers. Women that worked prior to the war did less extinctive work that was generally looked at as "unskilled" labor. President Roosevelt 's commented to three press association representatives on the work being done by the women in skilled labor positions stating: “I was impressed by the large proportion of women employed—doing skilled manual labor running machines” . Reflecting the common notion that women during this time period were unable to partake in skilled tasks as such aircraft or car production. The increases of workers needed to furnish items need by the armed forces to fight in the war would change that thought of women as …show more content…
One of the women intervied by Gluck was a Black American named Fanny Christina Hill, a women who previous to the war worked as a house keeper for white people. Being black, a woman and single in her early life made life very difficult for her leaving Hill to the house keeping position she held. After marriage to her husband Joseph Hill she found work as she moved with her husband to Los Angeles, Ca. working for North American Aviation a company that showed initiative in hiring Black American as labors during this period. Hill is quoted stating “The war made me live better, it really did. My sister always said that Hitler was the one that got us out of the white folks’ kitchen.” The side-effects of World War II offered Hill the opportunity she needed to make a better life for herself and also passing down this new independence onto the next generation of women by allowing her daughter to live out her
With this in mind women were to maintain the home meaning cooking, cleaning, taking care of their husbands and kids lives ect. After the depression set in many women were subsequently pushed toward joing the workforce to keep their families together. After the United States entered World War 2 women were called on to help wartime efforts as many of the countries men went off to war. President Roosevelt 's Fireside Chat on Columbus Day of 1942 shifted the nation views on women and Black Americans joining the work forces as help from any source was needed as many of the country men were enlisted to fight in the war. Women were asked to do jobs previously looked at as to high-skilled or inappropriate for women piror to the war like working as a machinist or factory workers. Women that worked prior to the war did less extinctive work that was generally looked at as "unskilled" labor. President Roosevelt 's commented to three press association representatives on the work being done by the women in skilled labor positions stating: “I was impressed by the large proportion of women employed—doing skilled manual labor running machines” . Reflecting the common notion that women during this time period were unable to partake in skilled tasks as such aircraft or car production. The increases of workers needed to furnish items need by the armed forces to fight in the war would change that thought of women as …show more content…
One of the women intervied by Gluck was a Black American named Fanny Christina Hill, a women who previous to the war worked as a house keeper for white people. Being black, a woman and single in her early life made life very difficult for her leaving Hill to the house keeping position she held. After marriage to her husband Joseph Hill she found work as she moved with her husband to Los Angeles, Ca. working for North American Aviation a company that showed initiative in hiring Black American as labors during this period. Hill is quoted stating “The war made me live better, it really did. My sister always said that Hitler was the one that got us out of the white folks’ kitchen.” The side-effects of World War II offered Hill the opportunity she needed to make a better life for herself and also passing down this new independence onto the next generation of women by allowing her daughter to live out her