TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robb,Linsey
TI  - Men at work: the working man in British culture, 1939-1945 
T2  - Genders and sexualities in history
AV  - D759 .R63 2015
U1  - 305.38/23094109044 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Men
KW  - Employment
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Work
KW  - Working class
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Finding the Lost Working Man -- 2. Digging for Victory : Farming in Wartime Culture -- 3. The Attack Begins in the Factory : The Male Industrial Worker in Wartime Culture -- 4. Heroes on the Home Front : Firefighting in Wartime Culture -- 5. For Those in Peril on the Sea : the Merchant Navy in Wartime Culture -- 6. All In It Together? : Reflections on the Masculine Hierarchy
N2  - "A total war like the Second World War could not be won by soldiers, sailors and airmen alone. Men were required to till the fields, to manufacture munitions, to traverse the oceans with cargoes and to combat the ravages of the Luftwaffe's onslaught. As such, millions of British men of fighting age were not in uniform. These men were central to victory. However, in a culture in which almost exclusively lauded the armed forces hero how was the vital work of these men portrayed to the British populace? Through an analysis of commercial cinema, radio broadcasts, print media as well as overt state propaganda, in conjunction with extensive archival research, Men at Work explores this very question"--
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4001364
ER  -