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Arsenal of World War II : The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1940-1945 /

"Arsenal of World War II shows that mobilization meant more than simply harnessing the economy for war; it also involved struggles for power and position among a great many interest groups and ideologies. Nearly two decades in the making, it provides an ambitious and enormously insightful overv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Koistinen, Paul A. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • National Defense Advisory Commission
  • Origins, structure, and staffing of NDAC
  • The military and economic mobilization
  • The NDAC in operation
  • The Office of Production Management and the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board
  • Structure and staffing of OPM, OPACS, and SPAB
  • The military and OPM
  • OPM, OPACS, and the struggle to expand production
  • OPM's Labor, Purchases, and Priorities Divisions, and SPAB
  • The War Production Board, 1942-1945
  • WPB: organization and staffing
  • The armed services' material organization for World War II
  • 10. National and international mobilization agencies
  • Converting and expanding industry, 1942
  • Refining WPB economic controls, 1942
  • The WPB at flood tide, 1943-1944
  • Organized labor in a mobilized economy, 1940-1945: labor supply
  • Organized labor in a mobilized economy, 1940-1945: labor relations
  • Economic stabilization
  • Reconversion
  • Mobilizing the World War II economy.