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1 online resource (252 pages) |
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| Summary |
During the Second World War, over 1.5 million women found themselves thrust into the previously male dominated domain of the workplace, having to learn new skills within a matter of weeks. Their contribution to the war effort often remains unheralded, but it is without doubt that these women played a central role in an Allied victory. Kathleen Church-Bliss and Elsie Whiteman were two such women. The previous owners of a genteel restaurant, they volunteered for war work and soon found themselves in an aircraft components factory. Thrown into tough industrial work, they kept a joint diary providing a unique insight into life in a wartime factory. Working for Victory reveals the poor conditions suffered on the factory floor, as well as the general disorganisation and bad management of this essential part of the war effort, but it also describes how war work opened up a new world of social freedom for many women. This diary, both tragic and humorous, brings women's war work vividly to life. |
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System requirements: Adobe Digital editions. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Church-Bliss, Kathleen -- Diaries.
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Whiteman, Elsie -- Diaries.
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HISTORY / Military / World War II.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, British.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- War work -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Electronic books.
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Whiteman, Elsie.
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Church-Bliss, Kathleen.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Working for victory. Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton : Imperial War Museum, 2001. 0750925167 (DLC)2002318390 |
| Standard No. |
9780752468242 |
| ISBN |
9780752468242 (e-pub) |
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