warwork
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warwork (uncountable)
- Alternative form of war work
- 1948, Labor Cases - Volume 14, page 45:
- A veteran who prior to his induction had been employed in warwork was not entitled to be reemployed in the same or a similar position in employer's peacetime operations where the peacetime work required a different skill not possessed by the veteran.
- 1958, United States Congressional serial set - Issue 12080, page lxxxvi:
- Civilian losses could not normally be offset against warwork profits under the applicable Board regulations at the time.
- 1992, Catherine Clinton, Nina Silber, Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War, →ISBN, page 255:
- Through warwork it became possible for many women to articulate a resistance to their secondary status and to expose, if only for a moment, the erroneous beliefs about female voluntarism.