“THE OPERARY WOMEN IN THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL ARMY”“Two years ago the world’s

“THE OPERARY WOMEN IN THE BRITISH INDUSTRIAL ARMY”

“Two years ago the world’s biggest brick factory closed its doors as all of its workforced enlisted to the british army. This difficulty, however, was overcome due to feminine workforce joining the fold and soon the factory was working again. In the pictures: (1) A woman filling a brick molding machine with mud; (2) transporting bricks from the molding machine to the furnaces; (3) setting the bricks into the furnace; (4) taking the finished bricks to the railways.”

Feminine work during the Great War played a big role in the conflict, as more and more men enslisted and the war escalated, women were the ones left to make the war industry going. This is argued as one of the first movements that influenced the creation of feminism and female emancipation movements such as that, as more and more women filled the gap left by men and started to demand equal rights.

Source: A Guerra Illustrada/”La Guerre Illustrée” (The War Illustrated). February, 1918.