WW2: Women & Work
Warfare
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Was It Particularly Dangerous Working in a Factory Environment for Connie?
The Wededa documentary for history t v on female munitions workers during the first world war. Women worked on cordites, what sir arthur conan doyle called the devil's porridge,. up in gretna, where the factory was based. The second point that stuck me was, yuess, there was also a large amount of social policing and the kind of paternalistic government roll over to make sure these women were kept in line.
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