Title Labor Market Politics and the Great War : the Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933

Published Ashland : Kent State University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages) Contents ""Cover ""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""Introduction ""; ""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 ""; ""Notes""; ""Essay on Sources""; ""Index"" Notes Print version record Subject United States. Department of Labor -- History United States Employment Service -- History SUBJECT United States. Department of Labor fast United States Employment Service fast Subject Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century Labor policy -- United States -- States -- History -- 20th century World War, 1914-1918 -- United States Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- United States Labor policy Labor policy -- U.S. states Reconstruction (1914-1939) United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781612771311 1612771319

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