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Hard Labour: The Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant 'Volunteer' Workers (Hardcover)
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Hard Labour: The Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant 'Volunteer' Workers (Hardcover)
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Although the Second World War ended sixty years ago, there are
still untold stories waiting to be heard: stories not only of
diplomats and soldiers but also of refugees, camp inmates and
ordinary people living in occupied territories, stories of women's
and children's lives as well as those of men. In Hard Labour the
forgotten voices of a group of young women who left Latvia in 1944
are captured, telling the story of their flight from the advancing
Soviet Army, their difficult journeys across central Europe, their
lives as displaced people in Allied camps in Germany and finally
their refuge in Britain. Hard work is at the centre of these
stories, as the women became 'volunteer' workers, first for the
Nazi war effort and then as labourers in the British post-war
reconstruction plan. In what has been described as a 'venemous
postscript' to the War, the fit and able amongst the vast homeless
and often stateless population that fetched up in camps run by the
Allies in war-devastated Germany were recruited by western states
as labourers. Great Britain was the first nation to recruit
displaced persons, offering jobs in hospitals and private homes as
domestic workers and in the textile industry to young single women
(and later men) from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and other once
independent states. Many of these women spent the rest of their
lives in Britain, longing to return to their homelands but
independence came too late for many of them. At the centre of Hard
Labour are the lives of twenty-five now elderly Latvia women who
came to Britain between 1946 and 1949. Their memories are placed in
the context of recent work in feminist history, illuminating
debates about displacement and loss as well as the transformation
of women's lives in post-war Britain.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
December 2016 |
Authors: |
Linda McDowell
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
236 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-15754-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
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LSN: |
1-138-15754-6 |
Barcode: |
9781138157545 |
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