Title: Labor market politics and the Great War
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: History, Labor policy, Reconstruction (1914-1939), States, United States, United States Employment Service, United States. Dept. of Labor, World War, 1914-1918, World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, United States. Department of Labor, Labor & Industrial Relations, U.S. states, General, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Labor, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, United states, department of labor, United states, employment service, World war, 1914-1918, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HD8072 .B726 1997