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Situating the factory canteen in discourses of health and industrial work in Britain (1914-1939).

In Britain, the establishment of canteens within factories can be linked to the exigencies of the two world wars. Seeking to maintain and enhance output in industrial sectors which were pivotal to the war effort, government agencies advocated industrial canteens as a means of preserving workers’ health, and by extension their productivity. Consequently, the number of factory canteens increased tenfold over the duration of the First World War2, and multiplied again over the course of the Second World War3. In light of this evidence, it is tempting to interpret the establishment of industrial canteens as a facet of what John Pickstone has termed ‘productionist medicine’: a system of healthcare predominant in the first half of the twentieth century, characterised by its preoccupation with ‘the health and strength of work-forces and armed forces’4. Indeed, war-time factory canteens, many of which were established in munitions factories, could be viewed simply as one aspect of the massive state investment in the infrastructure of armaments industries designed to facilitate military objectives5.