Labor's Home Front : : The American Federation of Labor during World War II / / Andrew E. Kersten.
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 s...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Labor’s Grave Hour
- 1 The Politics of “Equality of Sacrifice”: The AFL and Wartime Labor Relations
- 2 Putting the Shackles on Labor: The AFL and the Fight Against the Open Shop
- 3 Building Ships for Democracy: The AFL, the Boilermakers, and Wartime Racial Justice in Portland and Providence
- 4 “Under the Stress of Necessity”: Women and the AFL
- 5 Union Against Union: The AFL and CIO Rivalry
- 6 Death in the Factories: Worker Safety and the AFL
- 7 Planning America’s Future: The AFL and Postwar Planning
- Epilogue: Labor’s Moment
- Notes
- A Note on Sources
- Index
- About the Author