Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War - Paperback

$26.95

Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War - Paperback

Name: Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War - Paperback
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SKU: 9781612347196
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by Elaine F. Weiss

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Book Overview

Imagine a more controversial Rosie the Riveter--a generation older and more outlandish for her time. She was the "farmerette" of the Woman's Land Army of America (WLA), doing a man's job on the home front during World War I.

From 1917 to 1920 the WLA sent more than twenty thousand urban women into rural America to take over farm work after the men went off to war and food shortages threatened the nation. These women, from all social and economic strata, lived together in communal camps and did what was considered "men's work" plowing fields, driving tractors, planting, harvesting, and hauling lumber. The Land Army was a civilian enterprise organized and financed by women. It insisted on fair labor practices and pay equal to male laborers' wages for its workers and taught women not only agricultural skills but also leadership and management techniques. Despite their initial skepticism, farmers became the WLA's loudest champions, and the farmerette was celebrated as an icon of American women's patriotism and pluck.

The WLA's short but spirited life foreshadowed some of the most significant social issues of the twentieth century: women's changing roles, the problem of class distinctions in a democracy, and the physiological and psychological differences between men and women.

The dramatic story of the WLA is vividly retold here using long-buried archival material, allowing a fascinating chapter of America's World War I experience to be rediscovered.

ISBN	9781612347196
Author	Elaine F. Weiss
Publisher	Potomac Books
Genre	History and Education
Format	Paperback
Published	August 2015
Language	ENG- English
Pages	352
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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