Men in reserve

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Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Men in reserve: recovering the civilian man 2. Raising an 'industrial army': the policy of reservation in the First and Second World Wars 3. 'Making a contribution to the war effort': reactions to reserved status, masculinity and the military 4. Grafters not shirkers: reserved men at work 5. Bodies on the line: risk, health and manliness 6. Outside the factory gates: reserved life on the home front 7. Forgotten: the missing legacy of Britain's reserved occupations Concluding thoughts Index