The Labour Exchange by https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange You can leave your comments here. en-us 2018-12-29 20:41:39 UTC 2018-12-29 21:38:53 UTC hello@padlet.com Challenge #4 Can you find examples in the book that show that women often where braver than men? jatoledorabaneda https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854054 Mrs Grossman worked repairing Spitfires and she told that they usually worked with a mate and they were given a time to do each job. The girls got more time than the men, which wasn't fair, because they were all quicker than the men.
Another example , was Mrs Gange, who served in the WAAF and explained how she went to the top of the tower to do the fire watching, where the men didn't go up because they were too scared.
Montse S.

Eileen Smith tells us on page 31: "When an air raid warning went, we would down everything and make for the shelter..... It was rather hilarious, because the sergeant used to amaze us all; he used to be so frightened that, at the first bang, he used to go underneath the table. We used to say to him: It's alright. its only an air raid warning" 
Ángeles R.]]> 2018-12-29 20:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854054 Challenge#1 After reading the book, how did men react when women started doing war work? Can you give any examples? jatoledorabaneda https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854264 Irene, who worked as a postwoman, tells us how men didn't want them there.  Women had never worked in post offices, only behind the desk as clerks.  Initially, men were miserable to work for because they thought that women wouldn't be able to do the work, but after a while, they realised that women had enough strength to carry the great big sacks on their backs.

Isabel G.
Men didn't like women working. For example, on munitions the women earned a lot of extra money, and it would be more than the husband's. That's why some men would let them go to work, and some would say: " You are happy enough here" or "I give you enough money".
Ángeles R.]]> 2018-12-29 20:52:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854264 Challenge #5 According to Sylvia Jacobs, what was the big difference between women from upper middle class families and working class women regarding war work? jatoledorabaneda https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854272 For women it was marvellous that they could get away from home, but more so for the upper- middle class families, where the daugther was stuck at home until she married.

Regarding working class women, they were doing dreary jobs, with terrible pay, but they always knew they had to work, so for them the war wasn't so different, but it gave them the opportunity for better pay.
Ángeles R.

Upper middle class women didn't use to work before the war, so they lived new experiences that gave them  the opportunity to be more independent. The experience of working class women was quite different because they used to work before the war. Nevertheless, they also had some  improvements, as they were better paid doing war work. Most of them had to provide for their families, with their husbands away, in a tough situation.
Trini M.]]> 2018-12-29 20:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854272 Challenge #3 Can you find examples in the book that show that women could do the same work as men? jatoledorabaneda https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854296 There are a lot of examples in the book that show that women could do the same work as men. For instance, Mrs. Grossman says: “We usually worked with a mate and you were given a time to do each job, and if you finished early, you got a bonus; if not, you lost it. The girls got more time than men, which wasn’t fair, because we were all quicker than then men! The men used to like having a girl as a mate, because then they got more time”. Another example could be of Joy Brown's story: “I went to the Leeds branch as a secretary, which is what I was. Gradually they put us on the jobs that the men were doing, and I ended up on this very busy counter at Leeds, at the age of 30. In those days no men went on the counter at 23.” 
Celia T.
]]> 2018-12-29 20:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854296 CHALLENGE #2 After reading the book. What can you say about women's salaries? jatoledorabaneda https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854317 Women could do a wide range of jobs as well as men but men were paid more than them, although women were doing the same work. In some cases, if women had to do overtime, there was no extra pay for that at all. It was really unfair.

Olga Montoya]]> 2018-12-29 20:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316854317 Do you think it was fair? Joy Brown worked in a bank during the war: She was a secretary , but when the men left for the front, she was promoted to the counter. This increased her responsibilities but not her salary. When the war finished, she had to leave her job at the counter for the men who returned and become a secretary again. What is more, she had to teach them how to do the job (without being paid for it).It's also true that fighting at the front was a horrifying experience and the men deserved a decent job when they came back. What do you think about this?Marta M. jatoledorabaneda https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316855397 I think it was totally unfair. How would she have felt after that? If I had been her, I'd have felt completely demoralised and quite resentful. There should have been two people at the counter or she should have looked for another job in another bank, one which would have paid her an adequate wage. In any case, I have realised after reading the book that women should have been more respected.
Virginia G.]]> 2018-12-29 21:26:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316855397 How to understand the salaries jatoledorabaneda https://padlet.com/jatoledorabaneda/labour_exchange/wish/316855819 The British pound wasn't based on the decimal system until 1970.
Prior to Decimal Day in 1971 there were 240 pence in one pound sterling. Twelve pence made a shilling, and twenty shillings made a pound. 
Numbers of shillings were normally written with a dash and a hyphen after the number.
So, for example, one shilling was written as 1/- . Twelve shillings were written as 12/- .
For amounts of shillings and pennies - five shillings and three pennies, for example, was written as 5/3.
So, if Sylvia Jacobs earned £2/10- per week,  this means that she earned 2 pounds 10 shillings. And when she says that she earned an extra subsistence allowance of 3/- a day, that means that she earn 3 extra shillings a day. 
Now you can compare the different salaries these women received according to their jobs. 
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