Labor and the wartime state
Subtitle: labor relations and law during World War II
By: James B. Atleson.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Industrial relations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Labor laws and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Industrial mobilization -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States.; Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: The United States labor movement can credit - or blamepolicies and regulations created during World War II for its current status. Focusing on the War Labor Board's treatment of arbitration, strikes, the scope of bargaining, and the contentious issue of union security, James Atleson shows how wartime necessities and language have carried over into a very different postwar world, affecting not only relations between unions and management but those between rank-and-file union members and their leaders.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The context of wartime labor relations; title: The mobilizing period; title: The response to war; title: The War Labor Board and the law of collective bargaining; title: Managerial prerogatives; title: The institutional security of unions; title: The no-strike pledge in principal and practice; title: The new industrial workers; title: The threat of restrictive legislation; title: The transference of wartime visions to peacetime; title: The contractualism of labor relations and the postwar consensus; title: The limits of mature collective bargaining.