Writing Speaking at Work or On Her Their Lives Depend

Writing & Speaking at Work: A Practical Guide for Business Communication

Author: Edward Bailey

The goal of Writing & Speaking at Work is to help students roll up their sleeves and actually learn to write and speak. This concise, easy-to-read text focuses directly on these two crucial communication skills. It offers students and professionals practical advice they can apply today and every day.

This third edition has been fully updated and provides the most up-to-date coverage of e-mail communication and computer presentation techniques.

New Features
A new chapter entitled "Writing for the Web" covers these key topics:

• understanding how viewers look at Web pages
• making your home page user-friendly
• making your content pages efficient
• making good design choices

You'll also find many relevant and up-to-date examples throughout the book.

Finally, a new Web site includes a concise summary of main points in each chapter and a short, interactive quiz to help reinforce those points.

Hallmark Features

• Plain English Approach: Teaches students to write and speak clearly and efficiently.
• Style: Promotes a more spoken style of writing—the standard for most businesses today.
• Organization: Focuses on presenting the main point up front.
• Document Layout: Explains how to create documents that look inviting and visually show the structure of the document.
• Speaking: Shows students how to design a presentation so it's easier to give—and easier for the audience to understand.
• Visual Aids: Emphasizes computer presentations—the up-to-dateapproach students must master to be competitive in the job market.

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On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War

Author: Angela Woollacott

In this evocative book, Angela Woollacott analyzes oral histories, workers' writings, newspapers, official reports, and factory song lyrics to present an intimate view of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I.
Munitions work offered working-class women--for the first time--independence, a reliable income, even an improved standard of living. But male employers and trade unionists brought them face-to-face with their subordination as women within their own class, while experiences with middle-class women co-workers and police reminded them of their status as working class.
Woollacott sees the woman munitions worker as a powerful symbol of modernity who challenged the gender order through her patriotic work and challenged class differences through her increased spending power, mobility, and changing social behavior.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	List of Tables
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Army of Women: Munitions Factories and Women Workers	17
2	The Heterogeneity of Women Workers: Mixing and Mobility	37
3	"Industrial Work Is Good for Women": Health, Welfare, Deaths, and Injuries	59
4	Status and Experience as Workers	89
5	"High Wages and Premature Liberty": Wages, Autonomy, and Public Censure	113
6	Off the Job: Leisure, Socializing, and Sex	134
7	Class Relations among Women	162
8	"On Her Their Lives Depend": Gender, War, and Women Munitions Workers	188
	Bibliography	217
	Index	235