American Labor ...Producing for Attack
Production-drive poster: a low-angle bronze-toned statue of a muscular worker with folded arms and a pipe wrench against a deep blue sky, under the headline 'American Labor ...Producing for Attack'. The heroic monument pose lends the dignity of a memorial to factory work (transfer), and the slogan is a broad virtue phrase with no specific ask.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Production Board, War Production Drive Headquarters
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
War Production Board. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-351 (NAID 513801).
Text on the object
American Labor ...PRODUCING FOR ATTACK [imprint:] WPB Poster No. A-40. For extra copies, address: WAR PRODUCTION DRIVE HEADQUARTERS, War Production Board, Washington, D.C. [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [illegible]
