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An eyewitness account by a former front-line observer surveys the wartime munitions effort on the home front, reporting factory visits, inspections, and the scale-up of production. It describes expanding workshops, whirring lathes, growing stockpiles, and organizational changes while highlighting the practical roles played by women and other workers. The narrative combines reportage and technical description to explain how shell, fuse, and weapon components are being produced in increasing quantity. The tone is cautiously optimistic, arguing that past shortages can be ended provided industrial discipline and continued worker cooperation sustain the drive.

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Title: Doing Their Bit: War Work at Home

Author: Boyd Cable

Author of introduction, etc.: David Lloyd George

Release date: June 14, 2015 [eBook #49208]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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DOING THEIR BIT


DOING THEIR BIT
WAR WORK AT HOME

BY
BOYD CABLE
Author of “Between the Lines,” “By Blow and Kiss,” etc.

WITH A PREFACE BY THE
Right Hon. DAVID LLOYD GEORGE, M.P.

SECOND IMPRESSION

HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
MCMXVI


First printed May 1916.
Reprinted May 1916.