Labor's Great War: The Struggle For Industrial Democracy And The Origins Of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921

Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921

McCartin, Joseph A. From Library Journal McCartin (history, SUNY, Geneseo) has written a comprehensive account of American labor relations during the World War I era, bringing into sharper focus a period of union-management struggles that has not been dealt with as fully up to now. His major theme is the struggle for industrial democracy in the workplace. Linked to this effort was organized labor's drive to unionize the mass production industries and to bring the federal government's regulatory authority in on their side. Although many of organized labor's gains during World War I were lost in the aftermath, McCartin believes that much of the New Deal labor legislation had its origins in the events of this earlier period. Recommended for labor collections of academic libraries.?Harry Frumerman, formerly with Hunter Coll., New YorkCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.