HIS 146 Lecture Notes - Victory Garden
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Liberty: damsel in distress, mom (reason you"re sent to war) Men leaving for military, defense plants seeking mass employment: could previously hire children/ immigrants, legislation prevents children from working, immigrants bad idea at wartime. Actual female roles: filling in for men"s labor. Children turn into delinquents -> neglected when moms go to work. Can women do everything men can do? (heavy lifting, machine work) Meet mrs. casey jones: casey the engineer gone to war, wife works railroad (smiling, middle aged (anyone can help, appeals to women to help railroad, ad for war bonds at bottom, patriotic duty to buy and advertise them. The girl he left behind (handout: women working for the guys who left them when they went to war. Get a war job : work to occupy your time working instead of longing for men to come back, crying doesn"t help the war.
