Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor During World War II

by Andrew E. Kersten

Book Overview

One of the oldest, strongest, and largest labor organizations in the U.S., the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 4 million members in over 20,000 union locals during World War II. The AFL played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940s. The war years are pivotal in the history of American labor, but books on the AFL's experiences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814748244
• ISBN13: 9780814748244
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.9"