| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew E. Kersten. (New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiv, 274 pp. $42.00, ISBN 978-0-8147-4786-5.)

In Labor's Home Front, Andrew E. Kersten boldly goes where few historians have gone before—and it's about time. After all, the American Federation of Labor (AFL), not the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), represented the majority of union workers in the years 1941–1945. In fact, with almost 7 million members by the end of the war, the AFL was not only the nation's oldest and strongest labor federation, it was the most dynamic, too, out-organizing the CIO by almost 400,000 new members during those years. Although the numbers have been available since Christopher L. Tomlins published them in the Journal of American History back in March 1979, they have made almost no difference to labor historians until now ("AFL Unions in the 1930s," p. 1023).

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