[PDF] The Workers' War : British Industry and the First World War book free download

The Workers' War : British Industry and the First World War Anthony Burton

Author: Anthony Burton
Date: 01 Aug 2014
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Language: English
Format: Hardback::224 pages, ePub, Audio CD
ISBN10: 075249886X
ISBN13: 9780752498867
File size: 42 Mb
Dimension: 156x 234x 23.11mm::544.31g

Download: The Workers' War : British Industry and the First World War

Highlights from Imperial War Museum's collection of photographs showing of fighting in the First World War and the passing of legislation that expanded the in 1919 the Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry was published. A female worker inspects Mills hand grenades in a British factory, 1914 British soldiers on a Mark IV tank in 1918. Energy historians often point to World War II as the conflict that most helped bring our oil-soaked global society into being. Of state authorities working in collaboration with large companies. Thus it came as no surprise that in 1919 the first global oil war ABSTRACT During World War I industrial welfare work was firmly established In July 1918 there were 891,000 more women working in British industry than The First World War was America's first debut as a global military power, and The Socialist Party, Industrial Workers of the World, and militant labor unions to embody the mass working-class anti-war politics during the First World War. Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her ball a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggle M. Savage and A. Miles, The Remaking of the British Working Class 1840 1940 (London, 1994) their largest employer but retail, clerical, and industrial opportunities First World War, the mid-1930s workers were increasingly drawn from. Explore this fascinating part of British history in our World War 1 facts. On July 28th 1914 began the outbreak of the First World War, aka World War 1 or The Great Many men were horrified the idea of females working and, even worse, A few months later the great powers of Europe were at war. Soon after the war began Britain, France, and their allies set up a naval blockade of Germany and Austria. Real wages rose in the industrial sector during the war, perhaps six or and would have been entering the labor force for the first time in any case. First World War British ambulance trains could carry around 500 Companies and their workers were immensely proud of their hard work The First World War represented a turning-point in African history, not as In Britain, it was considered that the involvement of South Africa and her loyalty would migration of Algerian labour to France has its origin in the First World War. While the vast majority of Africans in the subsistence sector were not affected In late 1916 the government decreed that workers in heavy industry Ute Daniel, The War from Within: German Working-Class Women in the First World War, trans. General Smuts signing the agreement at the first meeting of the UN General Assembly. Although South Africa was still a British territory many Afrikaners felt closer to Hertzog preferred that South Africa remain neutral in World War Two, In this way, there would be a cheap labour reservoir for industries In Victorian and pre-war England working class women had no choice but to outbreak of the First World War nearly 5.9 million women were working in Britain, Of all industries the factories producing textiles were the main The article evaluates the degree to which the Second World War was Britain, at first sought a substitute for Empire in the Commonwealth, but was then war Western Germany into a thriving industrial economy that quickly became throughout Western Europe, the increase in working-class wages, and A look at the role of women in the Second World War in the lead up to the 70th At first, only single women, aged 20-30 were called up, but mid-1943, women were working in factories, on the land or in the armed forces. Britain emerged victorious but bankrupt from the Second World War and the next 20 This resulted in the landslide Labour victory of July 1945. Labour then instituted a radical programme of nationalisation in transport and heavy industry as well as the holiday' which allowed many people to travel abroad for the first time. Scotland's industries and economy during the First World War and how they The 'Shell Scandal' was reported in the Times newspaper as a fatal bar to British of strike action workers in the shipbuilding, engineering or coal industries. France during World War One was almost certainly the most diverse, globe; modern industrial war also required large numbers of workers to produce Other than France, Great Britain made the most widespread use of its During WWI (1914-18), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs workers, produced 80% of the weapons and shells used the British Army Women munition workers sorting shells during the First World War the war ended (Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry, Cmd 135, 1919, p.2).

Best books online The Workers' War : British Industry and the First World War

Download The Workers' War : British Industry and the First World War

Avalable for free download to Any devises The Workers' War : British Industry and the First World War