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Your Price: $ 19.95
Item Number: 16207
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Circa: 1918
Condition: Fair
Type: Softcover/wraps
Publisher: George Doran
Author: L.K. Yates
Edition: 1
Pages: 64
ISBN: Not applicable
With 24 black/white photos in its 64 pages, L.K. Yates’ The Woman’s Part, A Record of Munitions Work is a remarkable record of the heroic work done by British women in the early years of the 20th century.
While the coal mines of Northumberland, the foundries of the Midlands and the cotton mills of Lancashire were aiding vast populations in their daily human struggle, the demand of 1914 for requirements of the war were neither contemplated nor prepared for.
As soon as the importance of the demand for munitions workers was understood, a supply of labour began streaming into the factory gates – with 2 million persons employed in the munitions industry and one third of them women!
This book chronicles the changes as makers of agricultural and textile machinery began to produce munitions. Producers of lead pencils turned out shrapnel. A court jeweler made optical instruments. New industries were started and earlier trades were revived. And women from all walks of life were rapidly initiated into the simple repetition processes of shell-making and shell-filling.
As noted by the wide-ranging topics in the contents, the author has noted many unique changes in the women’s lives as they moved through their strange war-time adventure. And in the photos, Yates has also shown the women at work – in making 4.5 inch cartridge cases and 9.2 inch high explosive shells; inspecting and gauging fuses; grinding blades of cast iron propellers; painting a ship’s side in dry dock; roughing optical glass – and more!
This fascinating softcover book was published by George H. Doran Co., New York in 1918.
Condition is only Fair, less than what we ordinarily sell here, but with all the earmarks of an important rare copy.
The covers were originally soft wraps; these have been treated to add strength. They show some discoloration on edges and spine. There is some age coloration to the paper inside and some pages have dog ears on corners. A few page edges show some waffling due to dampness. It is ex lib with the usual library markings. HOWEVER, the book is complete and readable! The photos are clear and remarkably unusual!
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