Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II: With a New Introduction by the Author (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781592131969)

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 movementOCoespecially the Congress of Industrial OrganizationsOCoand 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."

Author: Nelson Lichtenstein
ISBN-10: 1592131964
ISBN-13: 9781592131969
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2003
Pages: 353
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.36w x 1.05d