In what way did high wages and worker safety regulations affect the war effort?

They helped guard against the possibilities of strikes thet would slow down wartime production. Across the major belligerent powers, industrial production and the mobilization and organization of industrial labor became central to the conduct of the First World War. States and private industries restructured labor towards large-scale production, employing increasing numbers of semiskilled and unskilled laborers, women and men, and laborers from across the world.