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Workers Blieskastel

Workers in Blieskastel

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Industrialisation and women

With industrialisation, women also became factory workers. Especially during the world wars, women also took over work from men. They were the main providers of labour in the region.

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Black and white photo of the interior of a factory. A row of workers at sewing machines can be seen from behind.
© unknown/City Archive Blieskastel
View into the production hall of the Herl Blieskastel shoe factory during the Second World War. The person marked with a cross in the photo is Anni Legrum.
Black and white photo of a factory building from the inside with working women and politicians.
Sepp Allgayer/City Archive Blieskastel
Photo of the commissioning of the Dorndorf plant in Niederwürzbach on 18 December 1970, with District Administrator Schwarz in the foreground and Kurt Hartz to the left: Kurt Hartz.
Colour photo interior view of a factory. Women sit in rows at sewing machines.
© unknown/City Archive Blieskastel
View of the production hall of the shoe factory (Herl?) in Blieskastel
Black and white photo of the twelve-strong workforce of the brickworks in front of bricks and the building.
© unknown/City Archive Blieskastel
Group photo of the workforce of the Dawo brickworks in Saargemünderstraße, Blieskastel. Dating: middle of the 20th century.
Black and white photo of bricks being loaded from a stack onto a small loading area.
© unknown/City Archive Blieskastel
Loading of bricks by workers at the Dawo brickworks in the middle of the 20th century.
Black and white photograph of the workforce in front of the cigarette factory in Blieskastel.
© unknown/City Archive Blieskastel
Group photograph of the workforce of the cigarette factory at Schlossbergstraße 42, Blieskastel. Dating: 20th century.

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Cornelia Wenzel (2024), Arbeiterinnenbewegung im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert, in: Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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