This Grand Experiment: When Women Entered the Federal Workforce in Civil War-Era Washington, D.C.

by Jessica Ziparo

Book Overview

In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women. Although the press and government officials considered the federal employment of women to be an innocuous wartime aberration, women immediately saw the new development for what it was: a rare chance to obtain well-paid, intellectually challenging work in a country and time that typically excluded females from such channels of labor. Thousands of female applicants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469668858
• ISBN13: 9781469668857
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"