| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Russell B. Olwell. At Work in the Atomic City: A Labor and Social History of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. 2004. Pp. ix, 165. $29.00.
Russell B. Olwell presents an insightful study of labor at the Oak Ridge uranium processing plant that will be essential reading for any scholar of World War II and Cold War America. Drawing from oral history interviews with Oak Ridge workers, local newspapers, and declassified Department of Energy (DOE) documents, Olwell traces worker recruitment, wartime living conditions, work on the atomic shop floor, and postwar changes within the workers' community. In doing so, he fills a gap in the historiography of the Manhattan Project.	1
Government agencies have furnished official histories of the Manhattan Project that emphasize its organizational challenges and administrative successes. Historians of technology have explored the struggles and accomplishments of the scientific elite who developed atomic weapons. And community studies of Oak Ridge have examined its civil development, as the war production site became a municipality. But so far, none of these histories have addressed Oak Ridge workers and their experiences at the vast atomic industrial park. Olwell is among the first to study labor in the highly charged, secretive environment of uranium production for the Manhattan Project.	. . .

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