Labor's War At Home: The Cio In World War Ii (labor In Crisis)
by Nelson Lichtenstein /
2003 / English / PDF
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"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".
"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".
