In Chapter 5 I focus on female industrial workers who were leaders of episodes of wartime industrial unrest, particularly the widespread factory strikes amongst women workers that took place in 1917 and 1918. Women who had led strikes on behalf of women workers were able to gain positions of influence within left-wing networks after the war because they were seen to have proven skills in the successful mobilisation of women workers. This mattered because the post-war years were a period in which unions and political parties were keen to recruit more working-class women. What an analysis of these women’s post-war rhetoric demonstrates, however, are the limits of the identity of war veteran for women; when and by whom it could be claimed, and when it was better to finesse or avoid altogether mention of one’s wartime history. Although these women attempted to claim both cultural capital and solidarity with others through their evocation of the wartime sacrifices of industrial workers in relation to the immorality of profiteers or shirkers, the association of the strikes of 1917 with social and political revolution, particularly in France, meant that they were unable to claim to have selflessly served the nation.