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Introduction, the war effort of every employee regardless of national background. The activities of the Women’s Commission that was established to handle “the problem of women in industry,” when so many men were drafted for war, are highlighted. The survey here of gainfully employed women in Minnesota in 1918 is an extraordinarily rich source for the study.

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,The Northwestern Knitting Company—Makers of Munsing Wear,rican women constituted the largest group, but more than half of the women were daughters of immigrants or immigrants from Europe. Most women were single, but also married women, (war) widows, divorced, separated, and deserted women worked there. The latter groups in particular had great difficulties making ends meet in their daily lives.

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A Non-union Shop, since women also dominated the garment industry, where workers unionized. Moreover, male Munsingites also stayed out of the union. So, instead, Olsson proposes that a successful paternalism prevented women and men from unionizing.

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,The Northwestern Knitting Company—Makers of Munsing Wear,st garment factory in the United States. It was owned and controlled by a small group of leading capitalists, who had their family origins in New England. They introduced a far-reaching division of labor that was based on the principles of scientific management in the making of the Munsing Wear as w

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,Divided Work—Women and Men at Work for the Company,tudy is a pioneering work in that it includes all kinds of work and all groups of employees. In contrast to scholars who dealt with the garment industry in New England, Olsson shows that American women did not escape low-paid and low-prestige blue-collar work in the garment industry and that not onl

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A Non-union Shop,-union shop. Several existing opinions among scholars about why female garment workers were difficult to unionize are rejected. American women did not leave the garment giant in Minneapolis due to a dominance of Italian and Jewish women, since these groups were hardly hired at the company. Jewish wo

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,“The Munsingwear Family”: Industrial Welfare and Paternalism, caused the company both economic and organizational problems. As one of the pioneering industrial companies in the United States, the Northwestern Knitting Company/Munsingwear developed a far-reaching industrial welfare program and social programs that aimed at making the employees, especially the