WWI conscripted over a third of Britain’s male workforce

Evidence

In the case of Great Britain, almost six million men were enlisted in the army, accounting for more than a third of the available male workforce. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 165

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking war-mobilization scale fact for small talk.
• XREF: connects to: WWI volunteers outnumbered conscripts in Britain during the early war. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1197; British wartime and postwar wage growth outpaced a full century of prior gains — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 359

Broader Connections

• WWI volunteers outnumbered conscripts in Britain during the early war. #complicates (0.85) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 1197
• British wartime and postwar wage growth outpaced a full century of prior gains #expands (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 359