Labor's war at home : the CIO in World War II
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Labor's war at home : the CIO in World War II
（Labor in crisis / edited by Stanley Aronowitz）
Temple University Press, 2003
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- : pbk
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Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1982
"With a new introduction by the author"
Includes bibliographical references and index
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: cloth ISBN 9781592131969
Description
"Labor's War at Home" examines a critical period in American politics 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. Nelson 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 relations with Roosevelt and the Democratic Party. Moreover, the political arrangements worked out during the war established the foundations of social stability and labor politics that came to characterize the postwar world. Nelson Lichtenstein is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He is the author of numerous books, including "Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit" and, most recently, "State of the Union: A Century of American Labor".
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations Introduction to the New Edition Preface 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 Essay Index
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: pbk ISBN 9781592131976
Description
Labor's War at Home examines a critical period in American politics 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. Nelson 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 relations with Roosevelt and the Democratic Party. Moreover, the 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
List of AbbreviationsIntroduction to the New EditionPreface1. Introduction2. The Unfinished Struggle3. CIO Politics on the Eve of War4. "Responsible Unionism"5. Union Security and the Little Steel Formula6. "Equality of Sacrifice"7. The Social Ecology of Shop-Floor Conflict8. Incentive Pay Politics9. Holding the Line10. The Bureaucratic Imperative11. Reconversion Politics12. Epilogue: Labor in Postwar AmericaNotesBibliographical EssayIndex
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