Course 2: New York at Work and Play (1940-1950)
Fall 2002
Instructors: Richard Greenwald, Maggie DeLuca, Amanda Dargan

Session 3: November 7, 2002 - Working on the Homefront, WW II

Focus Questions:

• How did the war change the work lives of millions of Americans? What was the nature of the call to sacrifice?
  
  
• How did the war affect male and female workers?
  
  
• How did it affect the communities and families?
  

Resources:

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/intro.html

Books:

Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front
by Judy Barrett Litoff (Editor), David C. Smith (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-
/0700607145/ref=pd_sim_art_elt//002-6025952-
8186459?v=glance

Americans Remember The Home Front Americans Remember The Home Front
By Roy Hoopes
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~shoopes/






Daddy's Gone to War': The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children
By William M. Tuttle, Jr.
http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol9/No2/
br5.html#TopOfPage

During the 1996 American presidential campaign, much was made of the fact that Senator Robert Dole, the Republican candidate for President, was almost certainly the last veteran of the Second World War who would stand for the presidency. Although Dole's candidacy symbolized the closing of a 50-year era in politics dominated by men who had served in the War, it does not mark the end of the Second World War as a significant personal event in the lives of political and foreign policy elites. In an interesting and thoroughly entertaining piece of interdisciplinary research, William Tuttle demonstrates that Americans who were born or came of age during the Second World War were as profoundly affected by the experience as those in military service. Now aged 55-65 and entering the last years of their working lives, these `homefront children' will remain a dominant force in American political and foreign policy decision-making for the next decade. In Daddy's Gone to War, Professor Tuttle gives this uniquely situated demographic cadre a thorough psychological and historical scrubbing.