Labor market politics and the Great War
Subtitle: the Department of Labor, the states, and the first U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933
By: William J. Breen.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: United States. Dept. of Labor -- History.; United States Employment Service -- History.; Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Labor policy -- United States -- States -- History -- 20th century.; World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.; Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- United States.
Description: The Department of Labor seized the opportunity provided by the chaotic labor market conditions during World War I to expand the US Employment Service (USES) and to establish control of the national labor market. That attempt provoked a reaction on the part of states that had created their own employment services and were suspicious of the administrative capacity of the USES.

A prolonged administrative and political struggle ensued, involving not only the Department of Labor and the states but a number of government departments and agencies and the major interest groups involved in the labor market. William J. Breen's Labor Market Politics and the Great War is the first detailed study of the way in which federalism influenced the development of government labor market policy in the early twentieth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-214) and index.