What does war-work mean?
War-work means Alternative form of war work..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Alternative form of war work..
In this instance, this presents a substantial methodological problem precisely because war-work was so unlike much of the industrial employment, not of all women, but of the women who were war-workers.
Dorr had finished drill, and come up, as he did every day, to freshen himself with an hour's talk to this warm, blundering fellow. In this dismal war-work, (though his whole soul was in that, too,) it was like putting your hands to a big blaze.
'The “Bloomsburies” were all doing war-work of “National Importance”', commented Percy Wyndham Lewis, 'down in some downy English county, under the wings of powerful pacifist friends; pruning trees, planting goosebury bushes, and haymaking, doubtless in large sunbonnets.
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War-work means Alternative form of war work..
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In this instance, this presents a substantial methodological problem precisely because war-work was so unlike much of the industrial employment, not of all women, but of the women who were war-workers.
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