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title	:	On Her Their Lives Depend : Munitions Workers in the Great War
author	:	Woollacott, Angela.
publisher	:	University of California Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0520085027
print isbn13	:	9780520085022
ebook isbn13	:	9780585079479
language	:	English
subject	World War, 1914-1918--Women--Great Britain, Weapons industry--Great Britain--Employees.
publication date	:	1994
lcc	:	D639.W7W66 1994eb
ddc	:	940.3/41/082
subject	:	World War, 1914-1918--Women--Great Britain, Weapons industry--Great Britain--Employees.

Page iii On Her Their Lives Depend Munitions Workers in the Great War Angela Woollacott UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BerkeleyLos AngelesLondon

Page iv University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England 1994 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Woollacott, Angela, 1955 On her their lives depend: munitions workers in the Great War / Angela Woollacott. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-08397-0 (alk. paper). ISBN 0-520-08502-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. World War, 19141918WomenGreat Britain. 2. Weapom industryGreat BritainEmployees. I. Title. D639.W7W66 1994 93-20667 940.3'41'082dc20. CIP Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

Page v For my parents, whose love of reading history was my first inspiration

Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. The Army of Women: Munitions Factories and Women Workers 17 2. The Heterogeneity of Women Workers: Mixing and Mobility 37 3. "Industrial Work Is Good for Women": Health, Welfare, Deaths, and Injuries 59 4. Status and Experience as Workers 89 5. "High Wages and Premature Liberty": Wages, Autonomy, and Public Censure 113 6. Off the Job: Leisure, Socializing, and Sex 134 7. Class Relations among Women 162 8. "On Her Their Lives Depend": Gender, War, and Women Munitions Workers 188 Bibliography 217 Index 235

Page ix Illustrations Following page 112 1. Cover of The War-Worker, June 1917. 2. Women operating cranes in a shell-filling factory, Chilwell, Nottingham. 3. "These women are doing their bit." World War I poster used to recruit women into munitions work. 4. Women workers on the canteen steps of an airplane factory in Birmingham, 1918. 5. Advertisement for Oatine Face Cream, 1918. 6. Firewoman bringing out a woman worker overcome by smokefumes. 7. Palmers Munitionettes, football team from Palmers Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Hepburn-on-Tyne. 8. Performance by the Purple Poms, members of the King's Norton Club for Women Munition Workers, at Abbey Wood, ca. 1917. 9. Scene at a girls' club. Cartoon from Punch, 1918. 10. Canteen superintendent demobilized. Cartoon from Punch, 1919. 11. Lady Maud and the taxi driver. Cartoon from Punch, 1918. 12. "Food for the guns." Postcard issued for the war bond campaign by the National War Savings Committee.

Page xi Tables 1. Number of Females Employed in Different Industries, 191418 25 2. Breakdown of Women Munitions Workers by Area of Work 31 3. Births per 1,000 of Total Population, 191320 147 4. Marriages per 1,000 of Total Population, 191320 154

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