The Victory Home: 
War Work--Industrial Workers


Poster:  Help Bring Them Back to You! Make Yours a Victory Home!
With the coming of war, industries switched over to production of war materials at the fastest rate possible. Manpower became critical, especially as many potential workers enlisted.
 
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Updated 11/12/04.
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Photos

These photos are in the American Memory collection, America from the Great Depression to World War II:  Photographs from the FSA/OWI, 1935-1945 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Search using keywords war work (many photos are of women workers)
 

This photo is in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

American workers give up holiday to speed Victory. The Blackwelder family celebrated Thanksgiving at their benches in a Glenn Martin Company plant.
 

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Posters

These posters are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

Get hot

Keep ‘em fighting

More production

Crack the axis

Work where you’re needed

Cutting air won't win this war! This is wartime too! Work & sweat for victory!

"Men's room marines" won't win this war! Work & sweat for victory!

Out of the plant for you means out of the fight for him. Remington war workers stay on the job

Oil Is Ammunition. Oil Workers Are War Workers.

War Department Report - Exclusive Showing For War Workers

Keeping war workers well and fit

Maintaining War Workers' Morale

Uncle Sam Must Have Trained Men & Women For War Industries

We may not be welding tanks, but . . .

I'm putting in a full day every day.

What's an Absentee Sarge? He's a Guy Work'in in a War Plant That's A.W.O.L.

You Too Are Needed in a War Job. Work in a Food Processing Plant.

10 lost minutes by American workmen means 19 lost bombers!

Casualities...On Our Home Front They Can Be Avoided!

Home Front Fires are Enemy Victories

In Battle...Casualties Can't Be Avoided...But On the Home Front We Can Avoid Getting Hurt.

Our Home Front "Task Force!" Like Soldiers... on the Job at Dawn! On Time... All the Time.
 
Dare You to Say

Boy, Did We Do A Day's Work


These posters are in the Smithsonian Institution online exhibit of WWII posters, "Produce for Victory" .

More, more, more production

Darn tootin’

Battle stations

Two-fisted fight

Together

Questions

Killing time

Bottleneck

Thanks for loafing

Never late

Keep ‘em rolling

Make today a safe day
 

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Strong in the strength of the Lord

Both barrels

Men working together

Don’t let it happen here

We the people

Horse sense

Fighting fool, 1

Fighting fool, 2

Idle hands work for Hitler

Invent for victory

Swell plane

Personal attention

Stuff to fight with

Knockout blow starts here

Free labor will win

Save my daddy’s life

Good news from home

United we win

I need your skill

Time saved on your job

Together we win

Keep it up

Today’s production

I appeal

Do it right

God help me

Keep em coming

More production

Bundles for Berlin

Quality of the work
 

These posters are in the American Memory collection By the People, For the People:  Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 . Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

In national defense industries are open for skilled workers

Mobilizing Michigan for farm and factory
 

These posters are in the Minneapolis Public Library's Posters of the Second World War collection.

Firebug Ferdie

Night Owl Harry

Sloppy Louie

Colin Kelly went down

Clock watchers are slackers

Be exacting

One careless act

Don't crow till it's over

Great is your sacrifice

They'll let us know when to quit

America's answer

Couldn't have done it without you

Don't let him down

What you make

Every bomb-load counts

A strange sort of prayer

Why should I work any harder?

Your job is to keep 'em shooting

You knock 'em out

Ships for Victory

They've got the guts

Twice a patriot

They stake their lives

The most crucial test

Put them across

Take it from me, brother

More firepower to 'em

Every day you take off

Keep punching

Keep pitching with both hands

I'm proud of you folks too

I need you on the job full time

Don't give your blood

Stamp out the Axis

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Pamphlets

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Click here for a free download of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
 

These pamphlets are in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

Guns, not gadgets

Your war and your wages

A challenge

Defense contract service

Subcontracting for defense

Minorities in defense

Production goes to war

Ships for freedom

Plant efficiency

U. S. labor goes to war

Labor in the war

Disputes before the War Labor Board

Your place in the war effort

Conversion: America's job

Information concerning manning tables
 

This pamphlet is in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the thumbnail to see a larger image.

Production drive: official plan book
 

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Video

You'll need to download the RealPlayer (the free "basic" version is in the upper corner on the far right) or the QuickTime software to view this video material.

These videos are in the collection of Internet Moving Pictures Archive (at archive.org). To view, under "Stream", click "Real" for the RealPlayer version or "QT" for the QuickTime version.

All Out for Victory

The Arm Behind the Army

Close Harmony

Conquer by the Clock

Curtiss-Wright Shorts

Every Minute Counts

Hands

Manpower

Men and Jobs

Suggestion Box

Supervising Women Workers

These Are the People

These People

Victory is Our Business

When Work is Done
 

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Ads

These ads are in the Medicine and Madison Avenue collection of Duke University.

The missing man, 1

The missing man, 2

The missing woman

I can't afford to lose a week's salary


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