Slacks and Calluses
Our Summer in a Bomber Factory
by Constance Bowman Reid, Sandra M. Gilbert, Clara Marie Allen
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- Release date: October 17, 2004
- Author: Constance Bowman Reid, Sandra M. Gilbert, Clara Marie Allen
- Format: paperback, 200 pages
- ISBN: 9781560983682 (156098368X)
- Publisher: Smithsonian Books
- Genres: history, memoir, historical, school, war, research
- Language: english
About The Book
In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live with aluminum shavings in their hair, and get along with supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life.
They also learned that wearing their factory slacks on the street caused men to treat them in a way for which their “dignified schoolteacher-hood” hadn’t prepared them. At times charming, hilarious, and incredibly perceptive, Slacks and Calluses brings into focus an overlooked part of the war effort, one that forever changed the way the women were viewed in America.
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