Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

1 Men in reserve: recovering the civilian man

The soldier hero and the invisible male civilian

Reclaiming the ‘worker hero’

Invisibility in academia and in the archives

The interview sample

Structure of the book

Notes

2 Raising an ‘industrial army’: the policy of reservation in the First and Second World Wars

‘Starred men’: reservation in the First World War

‘Scrimjacks’ and ‘scrimshanks’: the 1939 (Provisional) Schedule of Reserved Occupations

Reservation during the Phoney War

Bevin and the mobilisation of manpower

Conclusion

Notes

3 ‘Making a contribution to the war effort’: reactions to reserved status, masculinity and the military

‘Have you done your bit?’: the desire to enlist

‘You’re wasting my effing time . . .’: attempts to enlist in the military

‘The making of me’: experiences in the military

‘I’m not a pacifist but . . .’: disinterest in military life

‘We did something to stop the Germans’: valuing contributions to the war effort

Conclusion

Notes

4 Grafters, not shirkers: reserved men at work

Masculinities at work before the Second World War

Forging Stakhanovites: the pressures of wartime work

‘Quids in’: the rewards of wartime work

Validating masculinity: skill, strength and expertise

‘Women flooded in’: reserved men, female labour and dilution

Squaring up to management: masculinity, trade unions and strikes

Conclusion

Notes

5 Bodies on the line: risk, health and manliness

‘Made of iron’: work and the body

Under surveillance: honing, disciplining and regulating the reserved body

‘He too is a warrior facing danger every day’: accidents, risk and the body

‘There was no health and safety’: risk and male work cultures in wartime

‘With no regard for . . . the welfare of the workmen’: unhealthy, dirty and toxic work

‘We were targets’: war production and aerial bombardment

Conclusion

Notes

6 Outside the factory gates: reserved life on the home front

‘I had work to do’: the disavowal of wartime leisure

Facing a different kind of enemy: sport on the home front

‘It wasn’t a gay time but . . . ’: the pursuit of pleasure in wartime

‘Apart from the Blitz it was a nice time’: the incursions of war

‘Wanted to have a go’: service in civil defence

All the girls prefer a soldier: romance and the reserved man

Conclusions

Notes

7 Forgotten: the missing legacy of Britain’s reserved occupations

No monuments for munitions: memorialisation of reserved workers

‘He’s got it cushy’: reserved occupations in post-.war popular culture

Conclusion

Notes

Concluding thoughts

Notes

Appendix 1 Table of male interviewees’ details

Appendix 2 An international perspective on wartime labour control

Bibliography

Oral history interviews

Archived at the Scottish Oral History Centre (University of Strathclyde)

Archived at Imperial War Museum (London)

Archived at National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth)

Archived at British Library (London)

Archived at the Trades Union Congress (London Metropolitan University)

Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (Glasgow)

Documentary sources

Mass Observation (University of Sussex)

The National Archives (Kew, London)

Imperial War Museum (London)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Archive (Maidenhead)

House of Commons (https://.hansard.parliament.uk/.Commons)

House of Lords (https://.hansard.parliament.uk/.Lords)

Mitchell Library Archives (Glasgow)

Glasgow Caledonian University Archives (Glasgow)

Glasgow University Business Archives (Glasgow)

National Mining Museum (Newtongrange)

National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth)

National Army Museum (Edinburgh)

Modern Records Centre (University of Warwick)

Government papers

Literary sources

Radio and television programmes, and films

Paintings

Correspondence

Songs and poems

Tweets

Websites

Published sources

Newspapers, contemporary journals and magazines

Novels

Autobiographies, memoirs and diaries

Pamphlets

Books and book chapters

Articles

Unpublished papers and dissertations

Appendix 1Table of male interviewees’ details

Appendix 2An international perspective on wartime labour control

Index