Labor's war at home : the CIO in World War II / Nelson Lichtenstein.

By:

Lichtenstein, Nelson [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982Description: xii, 319 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

0521234727

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DDC classification:

331.88330973 19 L.N.L

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Summary: An examination of a critical period in American politics and labour 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library A5	Faculty of Economics & Political (Economics)	331.88330973 L.N.L (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00004876

Revision of thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California at Berkeley.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 301-307.

Preface; List of abbreviations; 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 essays; Index.

An examination of a critical period in American politics and labour 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.

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