Kōrero: Economic history

Women workers, Second World War

Women workers, Second World War

During the Second World War many New Zealand women left their previous roles in the home and went out to paid employment. These women are working in the Colonial Ammunition Company in Hamilton in 1944, preparing bullets for the war effort.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)
Reference: 1/4-000858-F
Photograph by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Brian Easton, 'Economic history - Great boom, 1935–1966', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24350/women-workers-second-world-war (accessed 25 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Brian Easton, i tāngia i te 11 Mar 2010