Beschreibung:
Juliette Pattinson is Reader in Modern History at the University of KentArthur McIvor is Professor in Social History and Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of StrathclydeLinsey Robb is Senior Lecturer in History at Teesside University
Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials.
1. Men in reserve: recovering the civilian man2. Raising an 'industrial army': the policy of reservation in the First and SecondWorld Wars3. 'Making a contribution to the war effort': reactions to reserved statusmasculinity and the military4. Grafters not shirkers: reserved men at work5. Bodies on the line: risk, health and manliness6. Outside the factory gates: reserved life on the home front7. Forgotten: the missing legacy of Britain's reserved occupationsConcluding thoughtsIndex