Victory at Home by Chamberlain, Charles
Victory at Home by Chamberlain, Charles

Victory at Home

Victory at Home is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a...
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Author: Charles Chamberlain
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Victory at Home by Chamberlain, Charles

Victory at Home

$100.93
Victory at Home by Chamberlain, Charles

Victory at Home

$100.93
Author: Charles Chamberlain
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Charles Chamberlain
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 01/06/2003
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.52h x 6.82w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780820324432

About the Author
CHARLES D. CHAMBERLAIN is the museum historian at the Louisiana State Museum and an adjunct professor of history at Tulane University.
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