On Her Their Lives Depend

I'm currently reading a few chapters from Angela Woollacott's On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War.

Woollacott, as I previously mentioned, also discussed the idea of 'khaki fever' and the class and gender issues that arose from that phenomenon. But this I found to be interesting:

“The multiple emblems of class status, such as language, accent, dress, recreational interests, and standards of housing, all operated in the relationships between women of different classes in the workplace. The friction that resulted, and the close proximity in which different classes of women worked during the war, on an unprecedented scale, contributed to the class polarization that characterized politics in Britain in the 1920s and into the 1930s. . . women on the factory floor were politicized by the public recognition of their work, through their union organization, their anger at demobilization, and class interaction with other women. That politicization provided impetus in the postwar period not to feminist but class-based movements.”