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Total War (Attitudes and beliefs (YMCA (Accommodation and food), Volunteer…
Total War
Attitudes and beliefs
7000 women became ammunition workers, canaries and bus drivers
Agricultural committees for land
1915: national employment register
Lord Derby introduced a voluntary scheme
1914-1916: 600000 children became workers on farms and factories
YMCA
Accommodation and food
Volunteer corps
State Intervention
Banned all day pubs
British summer time for farming hours
1915 Ministry of Munitions
Blackouts
Propaganda
1916 conscription
Social class and living standards
Women began to put hair and wear trousers
New housing/canteens by Lloyd George
Upper classes had to 'rough it'
Rations in 1918
1917 loss of manpower due to food shortages
Influenza and malnutrition
Economy and labour
DORA
Armament factories
Directed and controlled
1915
Control of labour force
Unions agreed 'no strike' for wages
Improved working conditions
Women replaced enlisted men
Staple industries found it difficult to adjust sufficiently