Programmes inviting staff include Balt Cygnet, which recruited Baltic women for nursing, housework and textile work.
[1] The relatively high level of economic growth in the UK during the post-war period led an acute labour shortage within key sectors.
[3] Since many of these people were displaced because of World War II, also a humanitarian element has been attributed to some of the EVW schemes.
They were for instance often refused positions with more responsibility and were in some places fired before British workers in the case of redundancies.
[6] A total of around 80,000 European Volunteer Workers and former displaced persons have been recruited through the Balt Cygnet and Westward Ho!