Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession
Brooks, Jane![Jewish Refugees and the British Nursing Profession](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/454/45416097/CHSBZCOP0345416097.jpg)
This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. In the mid twentieth-century, nursing was nominally a profession but with poor pay and harsh discipline. It was unpopular with British women, and in the years preceding the Second World War, hospitals in Britain suffered chronic nurse staffing crises. Despite the opportunities war-work offered women, the highly gendered world of mid-twentieth cen...