Labor's war at home : the CIO in World War II : with a new introduction by the author / Nelson Lichtenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lichtenstein, Nelson.

Series:

Labor in crisis.

Labor in crisis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--United States--History--20th century.

Labor policy.

Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)--History.

Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a

Contents:

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

Notes:

Originally published: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-307) and index.

ISBN:

9786612701092

9781282701090

1282701096

9781439904237

1439904235

OCLC:

806203257