A City At War: Milwaukee Labor During World War II

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Milwaukeeans greeted the advent of World War II with the same determination as other Americans. Everyone felt the effect of the war, whether through concern for family members in danger, longer work hours, consumer shortages, or participation in war service organizations and drives. Women and men workers produced the very important goods essential for victory—the vehicles, weapons, munitions, and components for the entire machinery of war. But even in wartime there were labor conflicts, fueled by the sacrifices and tensions of wartime life. A City at War focuses on the experience of working Women and men in a community that used to be not a wartime boom town. It looks on the stands of the CIO and the AFL against low wartime wages, and at women in unionized factories facing the perceptions and goals of male workers, union leaders, and society itself. Here’s a social history of wartime Milwaukee and its workers as they laid the groundwork for a safe postwar future.

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