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Labor and the wartime state : labor relations and law during World War II / James B. Atleson.

Title: Labor and the wartime state : labor relations and law during World War II / James B. Atleson.
Author: Atleson, James B.
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1998.

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Description

x, 307 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

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Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

The context of wartime labor relations -- The mobilizing period -- The response to war -- The War Labor Board and the law of collective bargaining -- Managerial prerogatives -- The institutional security of unions -- The no-strike pledge in principal and practice -- The new industrial workers -- The threat of restrictive legislation -- The transference of wartime visions to peacetime -- The contractualism of labor relations and the postwar consensus -- The limits of mature collective bargaining.

ISBN

0252023706 (acid-free paper)
025206674X (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^97021069^

OCLC

36977218
SCSB-10089179

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Harvard Library