“Following wartime opportunities west, ‘Rosie the Riveters’ found more than just jobs, though, when they reached the Golden State. And at the war’s conclusion, each had to decide whether her own version of the California dream had been temporary or something more durable.”
Professor Sam Redman just published “Rosie the Riveters discovered a wartime California dream” for The Conversation, a source for evidence-based information and analysis written by academics and edited by journalists for the public. He based his article on the 2013 Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front Oral History project to explore the mass female workers migration to California during World War II.