Victory at Home : Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II PDF
by Charles D. Chamberlain
Part of the Economy and Society in the Modern South Series series
Description
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.
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- Pages:16 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Georgia Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2010
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- General & world history
- History of the Americas
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- Military history
- Second World War
- Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
- Black & Asian studies
- Sociology: work & labour
- Central government policies
- Battles & campaigns
- Labour economics
- Political economy
- Local history
- ISBN:9780820327228
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Information
-
Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:16 black & white photographs
- Publisher:University of Georgia Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2010
-
Category:
- General & world history
- History of the Americas
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- Military history
- Second World War
- Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
- Black & Asian studies
- Sociology: work & labour
- Central government policies
- Battles & campaigns
- Labour economics
- Political economy
- Local history
- ISBN:9780820327228