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title: Victory Is in Your Hands! Tighten Your Grip - get into War Work
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-victory-is-in-your-hands-war-work-1939/
description: Three before-and-after photo pairs show women moving from sewing, cooking and household tasks to precision machine work, linked by arrows.
section: Collection
---

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[![Victory Is in Your Hands! Tighten Your Grip - get into War Work, 1939 UK poster: Three before-and-after photo pairs show](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-victory-is-in-your-hands-war-work-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-victory-is-in-your-hands-war-work-1939.jpg)

# Victory Is in Your Hands! Tighten Your Grip - get into War Work

Three before-and-after photo pairs show women moving from sewing, cooking and household tasks to precision machine work, linked by arrows. A clamp crushes a cracked swastika at lower left; 'Victory' and the swastika carry the emotional load, while the paired photos transfer skills from home to factory.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Victory
IS IN YOUR HANDS!

TIGHTEN YOUR GRIP -
get into War Work

PRINTED FOR H.M.S.O. BY JOHNSON RIDDLE & CO., LTD.  51-2193
ISSUED BY MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE.
```

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