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Fruits of Victory: The Woman's Land Army of America in the Great War
From 1917 to 1920 the Woman 's Land Army (WLA) brought thousands of city workers, society women, artists, business professionals, and college students into rural America to take over the farm work after men were called to wartime service. These women wore military-style uniforms, lived in communal camps, and did what was considered men's work that is, plowing fields, drivi...more
Hardcover, 315 pages
Published
November 30th 2008
by Potomac Books
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When World War I broke out, the US quickly discovered that there was a serioud labor shortage in agriculture. This book describes how American women answered the call, creating the Woman's Land Army of America.
The author assumes a certain knowledge of early 20th Century social history, primarily suffragist, but that does not detract unduly from her topic. And, while the book was a little dry on occasion, it was certainly a fascinating time. Who knew, for example, that there were foo...more
The author assumes a certain knowledge of early 20th Century social history, primarily suffragist, but that does not detract unduly from her topic. And, while the book was a little dry on occasion, it was certainly a fascinating time. Who knew, for example, that there were foo...more
This is a fascinating history of the Woman's Land Army of America, which mobilized when the US entered the First World War. Despite facing tremendous resistance from both the government and farmers, the group essentially saved the 1918 harvest in many states across the country. The women--called farmerettes--lived in camps funded by their state or county branch of the WLA (with the exception of California, where the farmers funded the camps) and performed all aspects of agricultural work--which ...more
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This book was kind of a disappointment. The topic, the nearly forgotten Women's Land Army of WWI, was fascinating, but the book itself was a let down, getting bogged down in repetitiveness and over-explanation. I do wonder if that was not, to some degree simply because there is not a lot of information that has been preserved on this topic.
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Elaine F. Weiss is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and on National Public Radio. She is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland."
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