Keeping war workers well and fit
Department of Labor Women's Bureau sheet laid out as nine captioned black-and-white photographs of women war workers: ventilation, local lighting, seating, machine guards, gloves, goggles, respirators, washing facilities and a hospital room. It is instruction by example, aimed at employers and workers; the technique is faint, with ordinary workers shown as models.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Health, Home front
- 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)
U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1190 (NAID 514796).
Text on the object
WOMEN'S [seal: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA] BUREAU KEEPING WAR WORKERS WELL AND FIT GOOD NATURAL LIGHT AND VENTILATION LOCAL LIGHT FOR CLOSE WORK PROPER SEATING AND GUARDED MACHINERY ADJUSTABLE WOODEN SEAT FOR WARTIME SHIELD FOR METAL SAW GLOVES TO PROTECT THE HANDS FROM CUTS GLOVES, GOGGLES, AND HEADGEAR FOR WELDING RESPIRATORS FOR SPRAY PAINTING GOOD WASHING FACILITIES HOSPITAL ROOM [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-595903]
