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Book Review: Jacobs, The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy In Cold War Laos., Edmund F. Wehrle
Book Review: Jacobs, The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy In Cold War Laos., Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.
‘Aid Where It Is Needed Most’: American Labor’S Military Industrial Complex, Edmund F. Wehrle
‘Aid Where It Is Needed Most’: American Labor’S Military Industrial Complex, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
Between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, American organized labor emerged among the most enthusiastic supporters of the military-industrial complex. This study examines that emerging relationship, focusing on the efforts of a group of unionists to mold defense spending into a vehicle for promoting employment and addressing social and economic problems. During the Korean War, labor representatives drafted, lobbied for, and helped administration Defense Manpower Policy #4, a policy channeling defense spending to areas suffering high rates of unemployment. With the advent of the Eisenhower administration, preferential policies fell by the wayside, but organized labor continued to press, with some success …
The Vietnamese Confederation Of Labour And International Labour, Edmund F. Wehrle
The Vietnamese Confederation Of Labour And International Labour, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.
Foreign Affairs! That's For People Who Don't Have To Work To Make A Living, Edmund F. Wehrle
Foreign Affairs! That's For People Who Don't Have To Work To Make A Living, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.
“Partisan For The Hard Hats”: Charles Colson, George Meany, And The Failed Blue-Collar Strategy, Edmund F. Wehrle
“Partisan For The Hard Hats”: Charles Colson, George Meany, And The Failed Blue-Collar Strategy, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.
Guns, Butter, Leon Keyserling, The Afl-Cio, And The Fate Of Fullemployment Economics, Edmund F. Wehrle
Guns, Butter, Leon Keyserling, The Afl-Cio, And The Fate Of Fullemployment Economics, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.
Welfare And Warfare: American Organized Labor Approaches The Military-Industrial Complex, 1949-1964, Edmund F. Wehrle
Welfare And Warfare: American Organized Labor Approaches The Military-Industrial Complex, 1949-1964, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
Historians have been almost unanimous in condemning American organized labor's postwar relationship with the military-industrial complex.(1) Most follow Nelson Lichtenstein's assessment of a movement sacrificing militancy in favor of a junior partnership in a corporate state dominated by employers and the state. This capitulation legitimized managerial authority, validated a regressive economic system, and latched labor's wagon to a reactionary foreign policy and an emerging garrison state(2) This latter relationship, in particular, has galled critics of American organized labor. By the 1970s, they could assert, as did even "labor priest" Monsignor Charles Owen Rice, that labor had become a "lackey of …
Labor’S Longest War: Trade Unionists And The Vietnam Conflict, Edmund F. Wehrle
Labor’S Longest War: Trade Unionists And The Vietnam Conflict, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.
‘No More Pressing Task Than Organization In Southeast Asia’: The Afl-Cio Approaches The Vietnam War, 1947-1964, Edmund F. Wehrle
‘No More Pressing Task Than Organization In Southeast Asia’: The Afl-Cio Approaches The Vietnam War, 1947-1964, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.
'A Good, Bad Deal': John F. Kennedy, W. Averell Harriman, And The Neutralization Of Laos, 1961-1962, Edmund F. Wehrle
'A Good, Bad Deal': John F. Kennedy, W. Averell Harriman, And The Neutralization Of Laos, 1961-1962, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
This article appeared in Pacific Historical Review, Volume 67 (August 1998).
"For A Healthy America:" Labor's Struggle For National Health Insurance, 1943-1949, Edmund F. Wehrle
"For A Healthy America:" Labor's Struggle For National Health Insurance, 1943-1949, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.
Work Begins Today: Quaker Volunteers In Depression-Era Kentucky, 1933, Edmund F. Wehrle
Work Begins Today: Quaker Volunteers In Depression-Era Kentucky, 1933, Edmund F. Wehrle
Edmund F. Wehrle
No abstract provided.