What wartime ‘munitionettes’ can teach us about burnout

During the war, Britain needed to manufacture weapons and ammunition quickly. Because so many men were off fighting, women – who had not typically worked in factories at the time – were called into service as "munitionettes". Their work included tasks like drilling screw threads on parts of weapons before they were assembled, and turning fuse bodies, which likely meant turning a piece of metal as a machine cut it and bore holes in it.