Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative 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.
1995, Gertjan de Groot, Marlou Schrover, Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, →ISBN2 more examples
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.
2000, S. Joshi, Civil War Memories, →ISBN'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.
2013, Alan G. V. Simmonds, Britain and World War One, →ISBN, page 161
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