The Army and Industrial Manpower (United States Army in World War II: The War Department, Volume 8)

xxiv, 291 pp. Green cloth, gilt titles. Includes 3 tables, 2 charts, bibliographical note, glossary, and index. "The present volume is not intended to be a comprehensive treatise; the aim, instead, is to illustrated by discussion of selected topics the nature of the problems the War Department faced in relation to the employment of industrial manpower and the policies and procedures that it developed to deal with them (United States Army in World War II Reader's Guide, pp. 16-17). Includes discussion of labor clauses in procurement contracts, public opinion and the mobilization of labor, labor supply factors in contract placements and cutbacks, the problem of minority groups in war industry, employment of foreign workers and prisoners of war, the use of soldiers, compulsory service versus voluntary labor, and the relation between the strength of the Army and the size of the civilian labor force.