Parliament’s Defence Committee suggests mobilising not only to Armed Forces but also to companies of military-industrial complex

4 comments

1. Honestly, kind of smart idea.

2. During WWII, America’s entire economy went into war mode. Most everything made was to support the war effort. Ford’s assembly facility turned into one of the biggest aircraft assembly plants in the world at the time. How do you think we built so many planes, ships, and tanks at that time?

3. I don’t understand why that’s not already happening. It’s normal in full scale wars like WW2 that millions of people are mobilized to the front, and millions of people are mobilized to produce the ammunition that’s needed at the front.

4. In the U.S. there is something similar, the Defense Production Act.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

   Although I don’t think this mobilizes labor directly, it can force businesses to produce war materiel, which presumably would create labor demand.