The War Department


Book Description

This book describes what happened to the U. S. Army in World War II as the result of two prevailing circumstances. One was that the War Department had a vital interest and a leading role in maintaining the production of supplies needed to win the war. The other was that, once organized for war, the War Department and the Army comprised an administrative machine incomparably more efficient for getting things done than any other at the disposal of the President. In both connections Army officers found themselves drawn into the realm of industrial management - one surely remote from the field of battle. The authors of the present volume examine and illustrate the ways in which the Army and its officers dealt with the problems into which they were drawn in dealing with organized labor. Since World War II the Army has become even more deeply involved in relations, present and potential, with industry and industrial management.




The Army and Industrial Manpower (Classic Reprint)


Book Description

Excerpt from The Army and Industrial Manpower Statutory recognition of the War Department's new role and the basis for its subsequent activities in the field of industrial mobilization were given in the National Defense Act of 1920, which charged the Assistant Secretary of War with supervision of the procurement of all military supplies and Other business of the War Department pertaining thereto and the assurance of adequate provision for mobilization of materiel and indusrrial organiza tions essential to wartime needs. 2 In the field of industrial mobilization, the authority vested in the Assistant Secretary was sweeping and potentially enormous, for his peacetime planning responsibilities extended beyond the confines of the War Department almost as far as he chose to go. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




United States Army in World War II


Book Description

The ways in which the Army dealt with organized labor told principally from the vantage point of the Office of the Under Secretary of War and the Industrial Personnel Division, Army Service Forces.




The Hammer and the Sword


Book Description




The War Department


Book Description




Manpower for War Production


Book Description