| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Andrew E. Kersten. Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. 273. Illustrations. Index. Note on Sources. Notes. Cloth, $42.00.
Andrew E. Kersten seeks to redress a historiographical wrong in his fine new study of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Although the development of the rival Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) during the Second World War has been examined by scholars such as Robert Zieger in The CIO: 1935–1955, and Nelson Lichtenstein in Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II, the history of the AFL during the war has not been chronicled.	1
Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II, examines the evolution of the AFL. Kersten argues that by the end of the war the nation's largest labor federation, having anchored itself firmly to the economic policies of Franklin Roosevelt, had become a genuinely liberal force in American politics and had permanently abandoned its traditional aversion to government interference in labor's affairs.	. . .

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