Put your muscle on a war basis! Sign up for a farm job
A shirtless young man swings a pitchfork at a haystack against a yellow ground, under the headline 'Put your muscle on a war basis!' and the line 'Sign up for a farm job' at the local U.S. Employment Office. The technique is transfer: physical farm work is relabelled as a war contribution, with no enemy or threat shown.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- War Manpower Commission
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Recruit
- Themes
- Home front, Labor
- 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 Manpower Commission. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1599 (NAID 515264).
Text on the object
Put your muscle on a war basis ! SIGN UP FOR A FARM JOB ...at your local U.S. Employment Office [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1942—O—468382 [imprint:] WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION • WASHINGTON, D. C.
