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1	Women, War, and Work: British Women in Industry 1914 to 1919 Kimball, Toshla (Toshla Rene) 08 1900 (has links) This thesis examines the entry of women, during World War I, into industrial employment that men had previously dominated. It attempts to determine if women's wartime activities significantly changed the roles women played in industry and society. Major sources consulted include microfilm of the British Cabinet Minutes and British Cabinet Papers; Parliamentary Debates; memoirs of contemporaries like David Lloyd George, Beatrice Webb, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Monica Cosens; and contemporary newspapers. The examination begins with the early debates concerning the pressing need for labor in war industries, women's recruitment into industry, women's work and plans, the government's arrangements for demobilization, and women's roles in postwar industry. The thesis concludes that women were treated as a transient commodity by the government and the trade unions. women in the war world war I women's wartime activities Great Britain history
2	The War in the Classroom: The Work of the Educational Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense during World War I Schuster, Casey Elizabeth January 2012 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / When the United States entered World War I in April 1917, many Americans quickly rallied to support the nation. Among the numerous committees, organizations, and individuals that became active in the mobilization process were the forty-eight state councils of defense. Encouraged to form by President Wilson and his administration in the days and weeks following U.S entry in the war, the state councils grew as offshoots of the Council of National Defense and assisted in bringing every section of the country into a single scheme of work. Everyone was expected to do their part in WWI, whether they were fighting overseas or helping on the home front. The state councils, broken down into various sections and county, township, and high-school level councils, made sure that this was the case by reaching down into local communities and encouraging individuals to become involved in the war effort. Their work represented the embodiment of a “total war” philosophy and, yet, studies on these organizations are surprisingly scarce, giving readers an inadequate understanding of the American home front during the conflict. This thesis therefore places the focus directly on the state councils and examines the work they undertook to make the United States ready for, and most effective in wartime service. In particular, it explores the efforts of the Educational Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense. By concentrating on this one section, readers may gain a better understanding of the lengths that the state councils went to in order to put every person – teachers and students included – on a wartime footing. World War I State Councils of Defense Mobilization Home front Indiana Education Voluntarism Patriotism Students Teachers Schools World War, 1914-1918 Indiana. State Council of Defense Indiana. State Board of Education Civil defense -- Indiana World War, 1914-1918 -- War work Patriotism -- United States Patriotism -- Indiana Administrative agencies -- Indiana Youth -- Political activity -- Indiana Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Women, War, and Work: British Women in Industry 1914 to 1919

The War in the Classroom: The Work of the Educational Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense during World War I