{"product_id":"victory-at-home-charles-d-chamberlain-9780820352718","title":"Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South During World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictory at Home\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labor force within the commission's province. Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded federal presence to gain unprecedented economic, social, and geographic mobility in the chronically poor region. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChamberlain looks at how war workers, black leaders, white southern elites, liberal New Dealers, nonsouthern industrialists, and others used and shaped the federal war mobilization effort to fill their own needs. He shows, for instance, how African American, Latino, and white laborers worked variously through churches, labor unions, federal agencies, the NAACP, and the Urban League, using a wide variety of strategies from union organizing and direct action protest to job shopping and migration. Throughout, Chamberlain is careful not to portray the southern wartime labor scene in monolithic terms. He discusses, for instance, conflicts between racial groups within labor unions and shortfalls between the War Manpower Commission's national directives and their local implementation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn important new work in southern economic and industrial history, \u003ci\u003eVictory at Home\u003c\/i\u003e also has implications for the prehistory of both the civil rights revolution and the massive resistance movement of the 1960s. As Chamberlain makes clear, African American workers used the coalition of unions, churches, and civil rights organizations built up during the war to challenge segregation and disenfranchisement in the postwar South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles D. Chamberlain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820352713\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820352718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Charles D. Chamberlain","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48441362710783,"sku":"9780820352718","price":92.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cc09b438-c619-4577-859c-f3aacd008020.jpg?v=1777190413","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/victory-at-home-charles-d-chamberlain-9780820352718","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}