Victory at Home

Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II

AvCharles D. Chamberlain

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Economy and Society in the Modern South

1 435 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

Häftad

511 kr

Beskrivning

Victory at Home is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labor force within the commission's province. Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded federal presence to gain unprecedented economic, social, and geographic mobility in the chronically poor region.Chamberlain looks at how war workers, black leaders, white southern elites, liberal New Dealers, nonsouthern industrialists, and others used and shaped the federal war mobilization effort to fill their own needs. He shows, for instance, how African American, Latino, and white laborers worked variously through churches, labor unions, federal agencies, the NAACP, and the Urban League, using a wide variety of strategies from union organizing and direct action protest to job shopping and migration. Throughout, Chamberlain is careful not to portray the southern wartime labor scene in monolithic terms. He discusses, for instance, conflicts between racial groups within labor unions and shortfalls between the War Manpower Commission's national directives and their local implementation.An important new work in southern economic and industrial history, Victory at Home also has implications for the prehistory of both the civil rights revolution and the massive resistance movement of the 1960s. As Chamberlain makes clear, African American workers used the coalition of unions, churches, and civil rights organizations built up during the war to challenge segregation and disenfranchisement in the postwar South.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Economy and Society in the Modern South
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:University of Georgia Press
ISBN:9780820352718

Utforska kategorier

Mikroekonomi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Andra världskriget inom Historia och arkeologi
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

CHARLES D. CHAMBERLAIN is the museum historian at the Louisiana State Museum and an adjunct professor of history at Tulane University.

Recensioner i media

Chamberlain's work opens a window on a chaotic, explosive South, a region in which wartime labor shortages reshuffled the population and placed unprecedented strains on the social and economic workings of Jim Crow segregation. The research is deep, the information fresh, and the writing clear. By focusing on one critical issue—labor power for wartime production—Chamberlain's work sheds new light on the complex dynamics of the southern (and national) economy of the 1940s.