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Title: Women and War Work

Author: Helen Fraser

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WOMEN AND WAR WORK

by

HELEN FRASER

G. Arnold Shaw
New York

1918

"No easy hopes or lies
Shall bring us to our goal,
But iron sacrifice
Of body, will, and soul.
There is but one task for all--
For each one life to give.
Who stands if freedom fall?
Who dies if England live?"

Rudyard Kipling in "For All We Have and Are."

[Illustration: A FEW SHELLS]

DEDICATED TO MOTHER, ANNE, AND THE BOYS.

CONTENTS

Chapter

1. THE SPIRIT OF WOMEN

2. ORGANIZATION AND ITS PITFALLS

3. HOSPITALS--RED CROSS--V.A.D.

4. BRINGING BLIGHTY TO THE SOLDIERS--HUTS, COMFORTS, ETC.

5. WOMAN-POWER FOR MAN-POWER

6. WOMEN AND MUNITIONS

7. THE PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN INDUSTRY

8. "THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY"

9. WAR SAVINGS--THE MONEY BEHIND THE GUNS

10. FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION

11. THE W.A.A.C.'s

12. WAR AND MORALS

13. WHAT THE WAR HAS DONE FOR WOMEN

14. RECONSTRUCTION

ILLUSTRATIONS

A FEW SHELLS (Frontispiece)

MISS EDITH CAVELL

DR. ELSIE INGLIS

FIRST AMBULANCE ON DUTY IN THE FIRST ZEPPELIN RAID

"SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE"

CLEANING A LOCOMOTIVE

WOMEN AS CARRIAGE CLEANERS

WINDOW CLEANERS

STEAM ROLLER DRIVER

TRAINING WOMEN AS AEROPLANE BUILDERS

RIVETTING ON BOILERS

FACING BOILER BLUE FLANGES

ROUGH TURNING JACKET FORGING OF 6-POUNDER HOT