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Article: Richard L. Pifer. A City at War: Milwaukee Labor during World War II.(Book Review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- March 22, 2004
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Richard L. Pifer. A City at War: Milwaukee Labor during World War II. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2003. Pp. 210. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95.
Richard L. Pifer's monograph, A City at War: Milwaukee Labor during World War II, focuses on organized industrial workers, their unions, and labor unrest. Pifer seeks to understand the nature of industrial conflict and those issues most basic to workers by studying them through the lens of a society at war. Unlike many other industrial cities studied during World War II, Milwaukee was not a boomtown, although it certainly prospered. Neither did the Congress of Industrial ...