WWII Home Front: Women Join the Workforce in 'Manpower' (1943)

August 7, 2011 | This 1943 film, "Manpower," promotes various initiatives to meet the desperate need for labor during the war, and this excerpt focuses on how women entered the workforce for the first time in unprecedented numbers. For color photographs of the home front, see Alan Taylor's World War II restrospective. More

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