Record #:

14891

Author(s):

Saunders, Keith

Abstract:

During World War II, North Carolina residents moved to the Portsmouth-Norfolk-Newport News area in Virginia to find jobs in the shipbuilding industry. Wartime efforts created a great need for laborers and demand raised average wages from $45 to $125 a week. Shipbuilding, ship repair, and other defense industries required the greatest number of workers. Higher salaries for office work also tempted women away from clerical work in rural North Carolina.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 16, Sept 1943, p1, 22

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--World War, 1939-1945--Shipbuilding