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"A MAN'S WORLD"?: A STUDY OF FEMALE WORKERS AT NASA'S KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
Title
"A MAN'S WORLD"?: A STUDY OF FEMALE WORKERS AT NASA'S KENNEDY SPACE CENTER.
Creator
Schwartz, Nanci, Leckie, Shirley, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
By focusing on women workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this study seeks to understand why women were initially congregated in certain occupations such as clerical work and later moved into non-traditional jobs such as engineering and the sciences. Such an investigation requires careful examination of the changing attitudes towards female workers in technical or non-traditional fields and why and how those attitudes changed over time and the extent to which this occurred. It...
Show moreBy focusing on women workers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, this study seeks to understand why women were initially congregated in certain occupations such as clerical work and later moved into non-traditional jobs such as engineering and the sciences. Such an investigation requires careful examination of the changing attitudes towards female workers in technical or non-traditional fields and why and how those attitudes changed over time and the extent to which this occurred. It also attempts to identify areas of continuing concern. The study reveals that several factors contributed to the women's progress in the workplace. These included the rise of the second wave of feminism, the federal government's support for the new feminism, favorable U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the willingness of officials at NASA's Kennedy Space Center to implement federal decrees. In addition, the women's movement expanded its efforts to encourage women to gain the skills and education that were necessary to move women into scientific and technical fields, although recently that effort has reached a plateau. The research for this study includes employee data from NASA and KSC, oral histories with female KSC workers, articles from KSC's official employee newsletter, Spaceport News, websites, and other secondary sources about women in technical fields, women in the workplace, and the recruitment of women into the labor force. Data from NASA and Spaceport News articles was also compared with information obtained through oral histories, to determine if the official policies of KSC influenced the behavior of its employees. Attention is also given to the legislation and court cases that opened doors for women seeking new avenues of advancement and the extent to which these outside factors influenced changes in women's employment and opportunities at KSC. This study shows that the status of women at KSC changed along with the larger women's movement in America. Supreme Court cases and Equal Employment Opportunity laws helped women gain headway in fields traditionally occupied by men. Women received token representation at first, but later moved up in their fields and even became senior managers. This change took place over a long period of time and is still ongoing. At the same time, there is still strong evidence of backlash and some weakening on the part of federal government in terms of its willingness to support women's drive for equality.
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Date Issued
2004
Identifier
CFE0000292, ucf:46211
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000292
History of the working class
Title
History of the working class.
Creator
Anonymous
Date Issued
c1931
Identifier
671409, CFDT671409, ucf:5576
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671409
The American labor movement: Its past, its present and future
Title
The American labor movement: Its past, its present and future.
Creator
Lovestone, Jay
Date Issued
1930's
Identifier
363252, CFDT363252, ucf:5279
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363252
Conflict and Modernity in New South Florida's Phosphate Mines, 1900-1930
Title
Conflict and Modernity in New South Florida's Phosphate Mines, 1900-1930.
Creator
Orr, Terrell, Cassanello, Robert, Foster, Amy, Dandrow, Edward, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis places Florida's phosphate industry in the context of the New South and the state's fitful emergence into modernity. Historian Paul Ortiz has identified a long trend of (")Florida exceptionalism(") (-) the idea that Florida has been exempt from the conflicts characteristic of the New South. These conflicts are rooted in racial violence and inconsistent industrialization, which resulted in lagging wages, labor struggles, overproduction crises and sporadic capital investment. These...
Show moreThis thesis places Florida's phosphate industry in the context of the New South and the state's fitful emergence into modernity. Historian Paul Ortiz has identified a long trend of (")Florida exceptionalism(") (-) the idea that Florida has been exempt from the conflicts characteristic of the New South. These conflicts are rooted in racial violence and inconsistent industrialization, which resulted in lagging wages, labor struggles, overproduction crises and sporadic capital investment. These Southern trends are likewise rooted in a national narrative of modernization, despite a tendency to consider the New South as in some sense outside of modernity. I argue that Florida has not been exempt from the conflicts characteristic of the New South or of modernity, and that the phosphate industry between 1900 and 1930 strikingly demonstrates these conflicts. Florida phosphate mining was one of the most capitalized and developed industries in Florida during these years; yet it has received essentially no attention from historians working in the relevant historiographies of labor, race, mining technology and political economy. In placing the industry into these contexts, the thesis proceeds analytically rather than narratively, making the argument by examining the industry from three distinct, but interrelated, perspectives, posed at increasing levels of generality: first, examining labor conflict and interracial organization in the industry; second, examining competitive pressures and technological change and third, examining the industry's vertical integration into the national fertilizer market.
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Date Issued
2016
Identifier
CFE0006157, ucf:51126
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0006157
The British labour movement: A syllabus for study classes
Title
The British labour movement: A syllabus for study classes.
Creator
Cole, G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard)
Date Issued
1924
Identifier
369653, CFDT369653, ucf:5466
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369653
American Siberia
Title
The American Siberia: or, Fourteen years' experience in a southern convict camp.
Creator
Powell, J. C., PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
The author's detailed account of the terrible conditions of the prison camps of North Florida and Southern Georgia in the post-Civil War era.
Date Issued
1893
Identifier
AAA3230QF00011/15/200108/04/200515713BfamIa D0QF, FHP C CF 2001-11-15, FIPS12039, FCLA url 20020227, 49476526, CF00001561, 2559055, ucf:7756
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dl/CF00001561.jpg
The heritage of Gene Debs, selections
Title
The heritage of Gene Debs, selections.
Creator
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), Trachtenberg, Alexander
Date Issued
1955
Identifier
2100238, CFDT2100238, ucf:4899
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100238
Chartism and the trades union.
Title
Chartism and the trades union.
Creator
Postgate, Raymond, Labour Research Department
Date Issued
1922
Identifier
357437, CFDT357437, ucf:5184
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/357437