Labour Exchange

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November 1940-January 1941

The Registration for Employment Order authorized Ernest Bevin , Minister of Labour, to require women aged between twenty and thirty-one to register at the Labour Exchange for war work.

Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.

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January 1942

The Control of Engagement Order broadened the age-range of women compelled to register at the Labour Exchange by the Registration for Employment Order from 20-31 to 19-41.

Smith, Harold L. “The Effects of the War on the Status of Women”. War and Social Change: British Society in the Second World War, edited by Harold L. Smith, Manchester University Press, 1986.

213

Parker, Henry Michael Denne. Manpower: A Study of War-time Policy and Administration. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1957.

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