A city at war
Subtitle: Milwaukee labor during World War II
By: Richard L. Pifer.
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Industrial relations -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.; Immigrants -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee.; Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Economic conditions.
Description: "A City at War focuses on the experiences of working men and women in a community that was not a wartime boomtown. Milwaukee was a community of established factories and neighborhoods. Within this context, workers and their families sacrificed for the war effort but also took steps to ensure a better future when the war was over. As wartime wages failed to keep pace with inflation, workers and unions worried about maintaining job and earning power in a postwar world.

As managers and companies profited from the war, they worried about controlling production costs and meeting the challenges of postwar competitors." "At a time when the United States is at war and there are simplistic calls for national unity and patriotism, A City at War provides readers with a complex view of the home front and the way Americans responded to the most significant war of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-189) and index.