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L. K. Yates

Best known for a vivid World War I account of women in munitions work, this author wrote with an eye for practical detail and the scale of women’s contribution to wartime industry. Their work captures a moment when factory labor, engineering, and social change were tightly bound together.

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The Woman's Part: A Record of Munitions Work

The Woman's Part: A Record of Munitions Work

by L. K. Yates

About the author

L. K. Yates is known for The Woman's Part: A Record of Munitions Work, a book published in 1918. It focuses on the work women carried out in wartime industry, especially engineering and munitions production, and presents that effort as both technically demanding and socially important.

The surviving record that is easy to confirm today is quite limited, so biographical details about the person behind the name are unclear. What can be said with confidence is that the book stands as an early firsthand-era account of women's industrial labor during the First World War, covering topics such as training, factory processes, welfare, housing, and safety.

Because firm personal information is scarce, the work itself remains the clearest introduction to L. K. Yates: a writer interested in how ordinary women adapted to skilled war work and helped sustain a huge national effort.