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This chapter weaves together details of the Federation’s responses to the coming of war, providing an overview of the issues it pursued with government and employers on behalf of its membership. It also explores its position within the labour movement, including the reasons why, in 1915, it entered into an agreement with the all-male Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE) and the effect that this had on its position within the wartime labour movement.
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Hunt, C. (2014). The First World War. In: The National Federation of Women Workers, 1906–1921. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033543_4
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