Labor and the wartime state : labor relations and law during World War II
The United States labor movement can credit - or blamepolicies and regulations created during World War II for its current status. Focusing on the War Labor Board's treatment of arbitration, strikes, the scope of bargaining, and the contentious issue of union security, James Atleson shows how wartime necessities and language have carried over into a very different postwar world, affecting not only relations between unions and management but those between rank-and-file union members and their leaders
History
x, 307 pages ; 24 cm
9780252023705, 9780252066740, 0252023706, 025206674X
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The context of wartime labor relations
The mobilizing period
The response to war
The War Labor Board and the law of collective bargaining
Managerial prerogatives
The institutional security of unions
The no-strike pledge in principal and practice
The new industrial workers
The threat of restrictive legislation
The transference of wartime visions to peacetime
The contractualism of labor relations and the postwar consensus
The limits of mature collective bargaining