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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Breen, W. J. (William J.) Labor market politics and the Great War. Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1997 (OCoLC)655344774 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
W J Breen |
| ISBN: | 0873385594 9780873385596 |
| OCLC Number: | 35280646 |
| Description: | xix, 233 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Prewar Labor Market. 1. State Initiatives and National Ambitions: Origins of the U.S. Employment Service -- 1917: Labor Market Politics in Wartime. 2. Federalist Aspirations in the States. 3. Nationalist Initiatives in the Department of Labor. 4. The Seattle Labor Market Experiment -- 1918: Victory and Defeat. 5. The Role of the War Labor Policies Board. 6. A Federalist U.S. Employment Service -- The U.S. Employment Service at War. 7. The Industrial Northeast: Connecticut. 8. The Midwest and South -- Armistice and Aftermath. 9. Reconstruction and Political Misjudgment, 1918-1919. 10. Postwar Reckoning. Epilogue: Keeping the Federalist Faith, 1920-1933. |
| Responsibility: | William J. Breen. |
Abstract:
The Department of Labor seized the opportunity provided by the chaotic labor market conditions during World War I to expand the US Employment Service (USES) and to establish control of the national labor market. That attempt provoked a reaction on the part of states that had created their own employment services and were suspicious of the administrative capacity of the USES. A prolonged administrative and political struggle ensued, involving not only the Department of Labor and the states but a number of government departments and agencies and the major interest groups involved in the labor market.
William J. Breen's Labor Market Politics and the Great War is the first detailed study of the way in which federalism influenced the development of government labor market policy in the early twentieth century.
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- Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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