Instructional factories and training courses: the inception and implementation of training courses for un-skilled and semi-skilled munitions workers during the great war

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dc.contributor.authorOsborne, Wayne
dc.contributor.authorCase, Keith
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-25T06:12:06Z
dc.date.available2015-09-25T06:12:06Z
dc.date.issued2013-09-19
dc.description.abstractThe Great War shell scandal of 1915 was as much to do with a lack of skilled workers as it was to do with the early inability of the Munitions Industry to manufacture the war materials required by the war. The number of skilled workers had never been large and volunteering for the Army on a large scale had drastically reduced that pool. Attempts to avoid ‘dilution’, or the use of un-skilled and semi-skilled workers, particularly women, in the munitions industry in the early months of the Great War failed. The Volunteer Scheme was an initial disaster for the newly created Ministry of Munitions. Recalling skilled men from the Army failed in equal measure. The only way for the Ministry to plug the skills gap, was to bring in semi and un-skilled workers. In 1916/17 Technical Institutes like Loughborough and Aston began to run short training courses for workers.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationOsborne W. and Case K. (2013). Instructional factories and training courses: the inception and implementation of training courses for un-skilled and semi-skilled munitions workers during the great war. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR2013), Cranfield University, UK, 19th – 20th September 2013, pp 331-336en_UK
dc.identifier.isbn9781907413230
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9485
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherCranfield University Pressen_UK
dc.relation.ispartofseriesHuman, Robots and Digital Manufacturingen_UK
dc.relation.ispartofseries7en_UK
dc.subjectWorkforceen_UK
dc.subjectTrainingen_UK
dc.subjectProductivityen_UK
dc.titleInstructional factories and training courses: the inception and implementation of training courses for un-skilled and semi-skilled munitions workers during the great waren_UK
dc.typeConference paperen_UK

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