Format:
XIII, 657 S.
,
graph. Darst
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9780700613083
,
0700613080
Series Statement:
Modern war studies
Content:
"In chronicling American mobilization, Koistinen reveals how representatives of industry and the armed services expanded upon their growing prewar ties to shape policies for harnessing the economy, and how federal agencies were subsequently riven with dissension as New Deal reformers and anti-New Deal corporate elements battled for control over mobilization itself. As the armed services emerged as the principal customers of a command economy, the military-industrial nexus consolidated its power and ultimately succeeded in bending the reformers to its will
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
National Defense Advisory CommissionOrigins, 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.
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Rüstungswirtschaft
;
Rüstungsproduktion
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003020126.html
