| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1 | The History Cooperative

Charles D. Chamberlain. Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II. (Economy and Society in the Modern South.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 288. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.
For some time, historians have asserted that World War II, that great war for democracy abroad, translated into meager socioeconomic advances for African Americans fighting on the home front. Charles D. Chamberlain concurs, arguing that the majority of blacks gained little from the spectacular economic boom and the federal government's attempt to manage labor relations and war production.	1
According to Chamberlain, the war, like Reconstruction in the later nineteenth century, set the stage for real social and economic change in the South. First, agricultural and industrial production created an unusual and often unmet demand for laborers regardless of race and gender. Federal intervention in the production and procurement of critical war material also posed challenges to long-standing discriminatory race and class practices in southern employment. Yet job segregation continued through the war and into the postwar years. In the end, African Americans remained in the backwaters of the wartime economic prosperity.	. . .

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