There Are Times When We Would All Prefer the Factory Life’
Letters From the Trenches to the Shippam Works in Chichester During the First World War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12669487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Grieves (Kingston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-70 |
| Publication date | 2003-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Family & Community History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1463-1180 • E-ISSN: 1751-3812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/fch.2003.6.1.006 |
| OpenAlex | W2025011388 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In evaluating the resilience of the British soldier on the Western Front less attention has been paid to the importance of news from the workplace in the wartime lives of temporarily uniformed men. Letters from soldiers in France to their paternalistic employer Ernest Shippam at Chichester suggest that the firm remained a powerful element of ‘civilian’ culture among citizen soldiers. The stoicism of the soldier after I9I4, in the face of so much awfulness, should be placed within the longer continuities of work and friendships and aspirations for survival and security after the war. News of other enlisted men from the work-bench and developments at the firm suggested that continuing attachment to the workplace was a critical element of troop morale in the First World War, alongside unit identity, bonds of mateship, officer-men relations and divisional efficiency
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Bolster · Element (criminal law · Face (sociological concept · Factory (object-oriented programming · Front (military · Home front · Identity (music · Officer · Paternalism · Political science · Psychological resilience · Social science · Sociology · World War II · Engineering · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |