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Women who worked in munitions factories during World War II made explosives to put into the weapons. They worked under very dangerous situations which caused many deaths because of explosion accidents and such.
The women made explosives, bullets for the guns and sometimes do some weapons.
because the TNT they worked with was harmful and the toxic powders involved in making it turned their skin yellow, over 400 'canaries'died from overexposure to TNT.
When women started to work they worked in factories. They worked long hours for little pay.
Yes men and women worked in factories
In England, a lot of women took over jobs that had previously been done by men, because the men were away at war. Women joined the police force, they worked as postwomen, bus conductors, drove delivery vans and worked in farming and forestry. A lot of women went to work in munitions factories, which was an important but dangerous job. Many women who had previously worked in domestic service left to work in factories or in other jobs.
Women worked in many factories and farms in the war.
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1,000,000
in ww1 women were called canaries because of the yellow faces they got from the tnt in the factories
They worked in the factories while the men where away at war. Specifically ammunition factories.
people worked in factories, especially women in 1908