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This is a 4 page paper which discusses how the book by Margaret E. Felt, "Gyppo Logging" demonstrated the advances of women in the male-dominated industry of logging in 1940s and 1950s.
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home, to raise the family and take care of domestic responsibilities. This choice of career was most certainly hard labor, and the strength and wisdom generations of women gained lead
to shifts in the traditional role of women. The logging industry, like so many other industries were dominated by a nearly all-male labor force. Women had very important
roles in the community and some had occupations outside of the home, as educators, clerks, or workers in textile mills and still others became very influential in such industries as
logging. Womens involvement in logging in the forests of the United States opened the eyes of men and women around the country to the strength and perseverance of women everywhere.
GYPPO LOGGER Operating with little capital, substandard equipment, and always on the brink of financial failure, gyppo loggers multiplied in the Pacific Northwest woods in the two decades following the
end of the Second World War. The term gyppo is an American slang word. The literal meaning of the word is generally a migratory workman who is employed on
a temporary or piecework basis. Because gyppo workers were not closely affiliated with a large company or corporation, they had to work extremely hard in order to succeed
or even to survive in the very competitive industry of logging. Margaret Elley Felts biographical account of her experiences as the wife of a Gyppo Logger in the American Northwest
in the 1940s and 1950s is an accurate portrayal of the sweat, grim, grit and never ceasing determination of one family to start, maintain, and thrive as a small independent
business. Margaret and her husband formed not only a marriage partnership, but also a business partnership in their logging business. Margaret was considered to be an equal partner with
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