In Soviet Russia women undercut the strict hierarchies of skill and gender within the factories. This forced male workers to re-examine their ideas about masculine and feminine work roles. This book provides a social history of Soviet women.
Contents
1. Guarding the Gates to the Working Class: Women in Industry, 1917-1929 -- 2. The Struggle over Working-Class Feminism -- 3. The Gates Come Tumbling Down -- 4. From Exclusion to Recruitment -- 5. "The Five-Year Plan for Women": Planning Above, Counterplanning Below -- 6. Planning and Chaos: The Struggle for Control -- 7. Gender Relations in Industry: Voices from the Point of Production -- 8. Rebuilding the Gates to the Working Class.