workforce

Examples of workforce in the following topics:

• The Working Woman

  • In 1870, women were 15 percent of the total workforce, primarily assuming roles as factory workers, teachers, dressmakers, milliners, and tailors.
  • Women were 15 percent of the total workforce (1.8 million out of 12.5).

• A New Labor Force

  • World War I saw a change in U.S. labor: women entered the workforce as never before, and labor unions gave firm support to war efforts.

• Labor in Wartime

  • To replace men who had joined the armed forces, women made personal sacrifices and joined the civilian workforce .

• Mobilization and the Development of the West

  • During World War II, traditional gender roles changed, as women entered the traditionally male workforce and served in the military.

• Changing Roles for Women

  • The domestic war effort in the United States swept millions of women into the workforce.

• Mobilizing a Nation

  • The U.S. mobilized its home front in WWI, resulting in bureaucratic confusion but also expansion of the wartime economy and women in the workforce.
  • While Wilson’s policies created numerous jobs in these new agencies, he also had the less distinguished achievement of segregating the federal workforce.
  • Yet the latter arguments were largely disproved, not only by the successful efforts of the WLAA, but by the widespread increase in women who joined the workforce to support the economy and the war effort.
  • The vast majority were drafted into the civilian workforce to replace conscripted men, taking traditionally male jobs working on factory assembly lines producing tanks, trucks and munitions.

• The Factory System

  • Other factory owners adopted Lowell's practices of providing housing and other living necessities for the workforce, and using semi-automated machines in a centralized factory building or complex.

• Changing Roles for Women

  • The domestic war effort in the United States swept millions of women into the workforce.

• The Gastonia Strike of 1929

  • Because of the large potential workforce of former sharecroppers and failed farmers, many northern industrialists moved south in search of a reduced cost of labor.

• The Diversity of Workers

  • But despite such rhetoric, the Federation only half-heartedly supported women's attempts to organize and, more often, took pains to keep women out of unions and the workforce altogether.