Labor's War at Home examines a critical period in American politics and labor history, beginning with the outbreak of … war in Europe in 1939 through the wave of major industrial strikes that followed the war and accompanied the reconversion …

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 are scant, with far more on the …

unions became subject to economic and political attacks a decade earlier, during the Vietnam War. This asynchronous … depletion of the industrial reserve army during the Vietnam War, this book explains how the complex interaction between the …