Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor During World War II
One of the oldest, strongest, and largest labor organizations in the U.S., the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 4 million members in over 20,000 union locals during World War II. The AFL played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s. The war years are pivotal in the history of American labor, but books on the AFL's experiences are scant, with far more on the radical Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO).Andrew E. Kersten closes this gap with Labor's Home Front, challenging us to reconsider the AFL and its influence on twe…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-4824-4
- EAN: 9780814748244
- Produktnummer: 19936864
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B14.7 cm x D3.3 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
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Andrew Kersten is Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of Idaho.
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