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Victory at Home (Economy and Society in the Modern South)
Charles Chamberlain
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Paperback. This work is an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labour force within the commission's province. It discusses conflicts between racial groups within labour unions, for example. Series: Economy & Society in the Modern South S. Num Pages: 312 pages, 16 b&w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JFSL3; JHBL; KCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
A new look of World War II's transforming influence on the South; 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 ... Read more
A new look of World War II's transforming influence on the South; 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Economy & Society in the Modern South S.
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820324432
SKU
V9780820324432
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