Andrew E. Kersten. Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. 273. Illustrations. Index. Note on Sources. Notes. Cloth, $42.00.
Andrew E. Kersten seeks to redress a historiographical wrong in his fine new study of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Although the development of the rival Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) during the Second World War has been examined by scholars such as Robert ...