American Labor in the Era of World War II / Edition 1

by Daniel Cornford

Overview

The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. Large migrations significantly changed the composition of the industrial work force while, simultaneously, the organized labor movement sought to consolidate its base. These essays examine topics including aspects of the institutional development of the labor movement at the national level, while west coast case studies explore the conflicts generated at the workplace and in communities by the increased presence of women and minority workers. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275951856
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/30/1995
Series:	Contributions in Labor Studies Series , #45
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.51(d)
Lexile:	1590L (what's this?)

About the Author

SALLY M. MILLER is Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She specializes in American immigration history and women and labor issues. Miller is the author of several books including From Prairie to Prison: The Life of Social Activist Kate Richards O'Hare (1993), The Ethnic Press(Greenwood Press, 1987) and wed Liberationeenwood, 1981).

DANIEL A. CORNFORD is Associate Professor of History at San Jose State University, California. His special interests are American labor history and California social history./e He is the editor of Working People of California (1995), an associate editor of The Emma Goldman Papers (microfilm edition, 1992), and the author of Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire (1987).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction by Sally M. Miller and Daniel A. Cornford
Labor in the National Arena
CIO Leaders and the State, 1935-1955 by Robert H. Zieger
The Law of Collective Bargaining and Wartime Labor Regulations by James A. Atleson
The United Steelworkers of America and Health Insurance, 1937-1962 by Alan Derickson
Struggles at the Workplace
Wartime Shipyards: The Transformation of Labor in San Francisco's East Bay by Marilynn S. Johnson
The San Francisco Machinists and the National War Labor Board by Richard P. Boyden
Who Controls the Hiring Hall? The Struggle for Job Control in the ILWU during World War II by Nancy L. Quam-Wickham
Race, Gender, and Community
"Her Husband Didn't Have a Word to Say:" Black Women and Blues Clubs in Richmond, California During World War II by Shirley Ann Moore
African-American Migrant Women in the San Francisco East Bay Area by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
Catalyst for Change: Wartime Housing and African Americans in California's East Bay by Delores Nason McBroome
The CIO: A Vanguard for Civil Rights in Southern California, 1940-1946 by David Oberweiser, Jr.
Index

Editorial Reviews

Papers from the 1991 conference of the Southwest Labor Studies Association focus on labor in the WWII era in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and some of the surrounding states. Topics include CIO leaders and the state, the law of collective bargaining and wartime labor regulations, the transformation of labor in San Francisco's East Bay, and black women and blues clubs in Richmond, California. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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