Author: United States. War Manpower CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The War Manpower Commission in Indiana, 1943-1945
Author: United States. War Manpower CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor supply
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Race, Jobs, and the War
Author: Andrew Edmund KerstenPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252025631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In this examination of the FEPC's work, focusing on the pivotal Midwest, Andrew Edmund Kersten shows how this tiny government agency influenced the course of civil rights reform and moved the United States closer to a national fair employment policy.".
Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History
Author: Indiana at War
Author: Heber P. WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 1362
Book Description
Department of Labor-Federal Security Agency Appropriation Bill for 1945
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Department of Labor-Federal Security Agency Appropriation Bill for 1945
Author: United States. Congress. House. AppropriationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Indiana Magazine of History
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Library of Congress Author Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Victory at Home
Author: Charles D. ChamberlainPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327220
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Victory at Home is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labor force within the commission's province. Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded federal presence to gain unprecedented economic, social, and geographic mobility in the chronically poor region. Chamberlain looks at how war workers, black leaders, white southern elites, liberal New Dealers, nonsouthern industrialists, and others used and shaped the federal war mobilization effort to fill their own needs. He shows, for instance, how African American, Latino, and white laborers worked variously through churches, labor unions, federal agencies, the NAACP, and the Urban League, using a wide variety of strategies from union organizing and direct action protest to job shopping and migration. Throughout, Chamberlain is careful not to portray the southern wartime labor scene in monolithic terms. He discusses, for instance, conflicts between racial groups within labor unions and shortfalls between the War Manpower Commission's national directives and their local implementation. An important new work in southern economic and industrial history, Victory at Home also has implications for the prehistory of both the civil rights revolution and the massive resistance movement of the 1960s. As Chamberlain makes clear, African American workers used the coalition of unions, churches, and civil rights organizations built up during the war to challenge segregation and disenfranchisement in the postwar South.