Labor's War at Home examines a critical period in American political 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 to a peacetime economy. Professor Lichtenstein is concerned both with the internal organizations and social dynamics of the labor movement (especially the Congress of Industrial Organizations), and with the relationship between the CIO, as well as other bodies of organized labor, and the Roosevelt administration. He argues that tensions within the labor movement and within the ranks of American business profoundly affected government policy during the war and the nature of organized labor's political arrangements worked out during the war established the foundations of social stability and labor politics that came to characterize the postwar world.
- ISBN13 9780521335737
- Publish Date 27 February 1987 (first published 28 January 1983)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 27 March 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 332
- Language English