HST 702 Lecture : Lecture Week 7
Document Summary
The first world war: total war part ii: the home front. Introduction y the home front as offense: human resources, enlistment/conscription, material support for war effort y arms production, popular support for the war effort, critical role of women y the home front as defense: Internment of enemy aliens : population transfers of ethnic minorities. The home front and human resources y wwi and the origins of propaganda: britain. ministry of information, 1917 y propaganda as a part of total war y gender and popular support for enlistment. The mobilization of the home front y war bonds and victory loans y mobilizing female domestic labour: rationing/economic efficiency y mobilizing female industrial labour, arms production. Women and industrial production y 1916 -all british men conscripted, age 18 to 41 y. Women rapidly became indispensable changing the whole balance of society in the process (howard, p. 70) y the suffragette movement and wwi: representation of the people act, 1918.
