Labor Market Politics and the Great War : The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Prewar Labor Market -- 1. State Initiatives and National Ambitions: Origins of the U.S. Employment Service -- 1917: Labor Market Politics in Wartime -- 2. Federalist Aspirations in the States -- 3. Nationalist Initiatives in the Department of Labor -- 4. The Seattle Labor Market Experiment -- 1918: Victory and Defeat -- 5. The Role of the War Labor Policies Board -- 6. A Federalist U.S. Employment Service -- The U.S. Employment Service at War -- 7. The Industrial Northeast: Connecticut -- 8. The Midwest and South -- Armistice and Aftermath -- 9. Reconstruction and Political Misjudgment, 1918-1919 -- 10. Postwar Reckoning -- Epilogue: Keeping the Federalist Faith, 1920-1933 -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index.