Catalogue description Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Labour and National Service: Private Office Papers: War Emergency Measures

Files of the Minister of Labour and National Service's private office concerning the planning of wartime emergency measures, particularly in conjunction with other government departments. The files contain papers relating to the preparation of the departmental War Book, the keeping of a war diary, and also questions of manpower, national service, reserved occupations, emergency legislation and special measures, and departmental organisation. Post-war papers relate to demobilisation and resettlement.