Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Activities of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in World War II.
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Activities of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in World War II. Development and Administration of the War Program by the Federal Government
Author: Activities of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in World War II.
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Historical Reports of War Administration, No.1
Author: Making the Empire Work
Author: Daniel E. BenderPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479871257
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of diplomatic affairs at the national and international levels. Missile defense, Cold War showdowns, development politics, military combat, tourism, and banana economics share something in common—they all have labor histories. This collection challenges historians to consider the labor that formed, worked, confronted, and rendered the U.S. empire visible. The U.S. empire is a project of global labor mobilization, coercive management, military presence, and forced cultural encounter. Together, the essays in this volume recognize the United States as a global imperial player whose systems of labor mobilization and migration stretched from Central America to West Africa to the United States itself. Workers are also the key actors in this volume. Their stories are multi-vocal, as workers sometimes defied the U.S. empire’s rhetoric of civilization, peace, and stability and at other times navigated its networks or benefited from its profits. Their experiences reveal the gulf between the American ‘denial of empire’ and the lived practice of management, resource exploitation, and military exigency. When historians place labor and working people at the center, empire appears as a central dynamic of U.S. history.
Important Military and Economic Events Chronology World War II
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Contains chronology for the period July 1939-Dec. 1940.
The Role of World War II in the Rise of Women's Work
Author: Claudia Dale GoldinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The 1940's were a turning point in married women's labor force participation, leading many to credit World War II with spurring economic and social change. This paper uses information from two retrospective surveys, one in 1944 and another in 1951, to resolve the role of World War II in the rise of women's paid work. More than 50% of all married women working in 1950 had been employed in 1940, and more than half of the decade's new entrants joined the labor force after the war. Of those women who entered the labor force during the war, almost half exited before 1950. Employment during World War II did not enhance a woman's earnings in 1950 in a manner consistent with most hypotheses about the war. Considerable persistence in the labor force and in occupations during the turbulent 1940's is displayed for women working in 1950, similar to findings for the periods both before and after. World War Il had several significant indirect impacts on women's employment, but its direct influence appears considerably more modest.
Bulletin of the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Author: Fact Book on Manpower
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Economics of World War I
Author: Stephen BroadberryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139448358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.