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Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II First Edition
Author(s): Nelson Lichtenstein (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 28 Jan. 1983
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 331 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521234727
- ISBN-13: 9780521234726
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Lichtenstein has compiled a splendid, well-researched book, written in an engaging and confident style. He effectively analyzes the search for labour stability during the war and, most important, what the implications were for trades unionism in the United States after 1945.’ The Economic History Review
‘This is an important and impressive volume. It replaces Joel Seidman’s American Labor from Defense to Reconversion (1953) as the single best source on labor during World War II.’ Business History Review
‘This book is essential reading for students of American labor.’ Contemporary Sociology
‘This is an impressive work which offers a useful perspective on the origins of the crisis the labor movement faces today.’ The Nation
