Post-war Britain
This week's "Saturday Flashback" goes back to the summer of 1947. It shows the National Health and Insurance card filled in for my mother when she was working. During World War 2, like many other women, she was employed in a heavy engineering factory doing jobs that previously had been undertaken by those men who were diverted into the Armed Forces. However, once those men were demobbed, many women became out-of-work as the pre-war patterns of employment re-established themselves.
Below, you can see where stamps were affixed each week until she left that employment. In her case, as far as I know, she left as a result of being three-months pregnant rather than for the reason explained above.
A separate card, not shown here, shows a similar set of Unemployment Insurance Stamps.
Post-war Britain
This week's "Saturday Flashback" goes back to the summer of 1947. It shows the National Health and Insurance card filled in for my mother when she was working. During World War 2, like many other women, she was employed in a heavy engineering factory doing jobs that previously had been undertaken by those men who were diverted into the Armed Forces. However, once those men were demobbed, many women became out-of-work as the pre-war patterns of employment re-established themselves.
Below, you can see where stamps were affixed each week until she left that employment. In her case, as far as I know, she left as a result of being three-months pregnant rather than for the reason explained above.
A separate card, not shown here, shows a similar set of Unemployment Insurance Stamps.