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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Lawrence, Kan. :
University Press of Kansas,
2004.
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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.