Labor's war at home : the CIO in World War II
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Labor's war at home : the CIO in World War II
Cambridge University Press, 1982
- : hard covers
- : paperback
Available at / 31 libraries
-
Institute of Social Science Library, the University of Tokyo図書
: hard coversCa:2204:736507837570
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California at Berkeley
Bibliography: p. 301-307
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Labor's War at Home examines a critical period in American political and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion to a peacetime economy. Professor Lichtenstein is concerned both with the internal organizations and social dynamics of the labor movement (especially the Congress of Industrial Organizations), and with the relationship between the CIO, as well as other bodies of organized labor, and the Roosevelt administration. He argues that tensions within the labor movement and within the ranks of American business profoundly affected government policy during the war and the nature of organized labor's political arrangements worked out during the war established the foundations of social stability and labor politics that came to characterize the postwar world.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The unfinished struggle
- 3. CIO politics on the eve of war
- 4. 'Responsible unionism'
- 5. Union security and the Little Steel formula
- 6. 'Equality of Sacrifice'
- 7. The social ecology of shop-floor conflict
- 8. Incentive pay politics
- 9. Holding the line
- 10. The bureaucratic imperative
- 11. Reconversion politics
- 12. Epilogue: labor in postwar America
- Notes
- Bibliographical essays
- Index.
by "Nielsen BookData"