--- title: War Work Exhibition (Gloucester Housewives! 2,500 Part-Time Jobs Now Open) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/war-work-exhibition-gloucester-uk-1942/ description: A text-only red-bordered notice addressed to Gloucester housewives lists 2,500 part-time jobs, four-hour shifts, hourly wages from 10d. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. War Work Exhibition [![War Work Exhibition, 1942 UK poster: A text-only red-bordered notice addressed to Gloucester housewives lists 2,500 part-time](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/war-work-exhibition-gloucester-uk-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/war-work-exhibition-gloucester-uk-1942.jpg) # War Work Exhibition (Gloucester Housewives! 2,500 Part-Time Jobs Now Open) A text-only red-bordered notice addressed to Gloucester housewives lists 2,500 part-time jobs, four-hour shifts, hourly wages from 10d. to 1s 5.5d., and a free War Work Exhibition at the Bon Marche from 2 to 30 December, closing with 'Think!' that two part-time housewives can release one full-time woman worker for the services. It is mainly an informational recruitment notice. The tell is that only hours, pay, flexibility and entry cost are given, with no mention of any obligation or other terms. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` GLOUCESTER HOUSEWIVES! You can help make aeroplane and aero-engine parts - or you can work in a shop, office, canteen, laundry - RELEASING A FULL-TIME WOMAN WORKER FOR THE SERVICES 2,500 PART-TIME JOBS NOW OPEN IN GLOUCESTER Part-time Shifts usually 4 hrs. Morning - Afternoon - Evening Choose a Shift to Suit Yourself ! WAGES vary from 10d. an hour to 1/5½d. an hour depending on the kind of work FREE Come and see an aeroplane being made. Talk to the girls. Ask all the questions you like. WAR WORK EXHIBITION BON MARCHÉ, NORTHGATE STREET, GLOUCESTER Open Daily 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Thursdays 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Dec. 2nd - Dec. 30th Full details about all jobs at the War Work Exhibition or at your local Employment Exchange Think! 2 HOUSEWIVES WORKING PART-TIME CAN RELEASE A FULL-TIME WOMAN WORKER FOR THE SERVICES [imprint:] F 1402 Wr. 38220 600 11/42 Gp. 961 FOSH & CROSS LTD. ``` [← War Bonds Will Keep Him Punching](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/war-bonds-will-keep-him-punching-1942/) [What Do You Say, America? (Admiral Yamamoto quotation) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/what-do-you-say-america-yamamoto-owi-1942/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.