In the early twentieth century, scientific innovations permanently changed international warfare. As chemicals traveled out of laboratories into factories and military locations, war became waged at home as well as overseas. Large numbers of women were employed in munitions factories during the First World War, but their public memories have been overshadowed by men who died on battlefields abroad; they have also been ignored in traditional histories of chemistry that focus on laboratory-based research. Mostly young and poorly educated, but crucial for Britain’s military success, these female workers were subjected to procedures of social regulation and consigned to carrying out dangerous chemical procedures causing chronic illness or death; in particular, when TNT died their skin yellow, they were colloquially known as 'canaries.'
...MoreArticle Lissa Roberts; Seth Rockman; Alexandra Hui (2023) Science and/as work: An introduction to this special issue. History of Science (pp. 439-447).
Similar Citations
Book
Tim Jenkins;
(2023)
The British Aircraft Industry during the First World War: The Dope Scandal
Book
Hwasook Nam;
(2021)
Women in the Sky : Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea
Thesis
Yarnell, Damon A.;
(2010)
Behind the Line: Outside Supply, Mass Production, and the Question of Managerial Expertise in the Model T Era
Book
Long, Vicky;
(2011)
The Rise and Fall of the Healthy Factory: The Politics of Industrial Health in Britain, 1914--60
Article
Clarsena, Georgine;
(2003)
“A Fine University for Women Engineers”: A Scottish Munitions Factory in World War I
Book
Rudolf Kučera;
(2016)
Rationed Life: Science, Everyday Life, and Working-Class Politics in the Bohemian Lands, 1914–1918
Article
Lansing, Michael J.;
(2009)
“Salvaging the Man Power of America”: Conservation, Manhood, and Disabled Veterans during World War I
Article
Martínez Pérez, J.;
(2008)
El “factor humano” y la distribución sexual del trabajo en el discurso de la organización científica del trabajo (España, 1922--36)
Book
Patricia Fara;
(2018)
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War
Article
Janet Golden;
(2017)
American Women Physicians in World War I
Book
Mary Elisabeth Cox;
(2019)
Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914-1924
Article
Siotto, Andrea;
(August 2016)
Image at War: Military Technology in the Illustrated Press of the Great War
Book
Sambrook, Stephen C;
(2013)
The Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888--1923
Book
Mark C. Wilkins;
(2019)
German Fighter Aircraft in World War I: Design, Construction and Innovation
Book
Filippo Cappellano;
Bruno Marcuzzo;
(2023)
L'universo parabolico della Grande Guerra: I 100.000 bombardieri e l'artiglieria da trincea
Article
Ritchie, David;
(October 2018)
More Beautiful Than Necessary
Article
Tanaka, Hiroaki;
(2011)
A History of Japanese Poison Gas Warfare
Book
Girard, Marion;
(2008)
A Strange and Formidable Weapon: British Responses to World War I Poison Gas
Book
H. R. Everett;
(2015)
Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II
Article
Linguerri, Sandra;
(2016)
Sulle ali del vento: il Regio Servizio Aerologico Italiano dai primordi alla Grande Guerra
Be the first to comment!