NOTES ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN ON MUNITIONS OF WAR 1916 With An Appendix On Training Of Munition Workers

Published a year after the ‘Shell Crisis’ of 1915, that had dismayed public opinion with the news that the Army was running short of artillery shells.With a preface by the Minister of Munitions Lloyd George and numerous photographs from munitions factories. This is an important official illustrated reference, providing notes on women’s employment in munition factories. It gives an interesting example of a woman working with ‘every possible assistance’ from the male worker who is clearly paid more than his female colleague, thereby meeting ‘the conditions laid down by the Ministry of Munitions with regard to the employment of women’.