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Miller, Sally M., and Daniel A. Cornford eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II (1995), essays by historians, mostly on California; Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (2003) Wynn, Neil A. The Afro-American and the Second World War (1977) Vatter, Howard. The U.S. Economy in World War II Columbia University ...
The act was meant to facilitate the immigration of women and children from Europe for five years after World War II. [3] The War Brides Act was passed for three main reasons: recognition of men's rights to have their wives and children with them, reward for military service and the principle of family unification. [4]
In 2018, and for the first time in U.S. history, U.S. billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than the working class. A study found that the average effective tax rate paid by the richest 400 families in the country was 23 percent, a full percentage point lower than the 24.2 percent rate paid by the bottom half of American households. [48 ...
Harrison, Mark (1988). "Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., UK, USSR and Germany, 1938–1945". In: Economic History Review, (1988): pp 171–92. Havens, Thomas R. Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War II. 1978. Hitchcock, William I. The Bitter Road to Freedom: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II ...
After World War II, eugenics and eugenic organizations began to revise their standards of reproductive fitness to reflect contemporary social concerns of the later half of the 20th century, notably concerns over welfare, Mexican immigration, overpopulation, civil rights, and sexual revolution, and gave way to what has been termed neo-eugenics ...
Smith, Daniel Scott. " 'Early' Fertility Decline in America: a Problem in Family History." Journal of Family History 12.1-3 (1987): 73-84. South, Scott J., and Stewart Tolnay. The changing American family: Sociological and demographic perspectives (Routledge, 2019). Vinovskis, Maris A. "Family and schooling in colonial and nineteenth-century ...
During World War II, the diagnosis for shell shock was replaced with combat stress reaction. [6] [2] [3] These diagnoses resulted from soldiers being in combat for long periods of time. [2] There was some skepticism surrounding this diagnosis as some military leadership, including George S. Patton did not believe "battle fatigue" to be real. [2]
By 1945 there were 4.7 million women in clerical positions - this was an 89% increase from women with this occupation prior to World War II. [8] In addition, there were 4.5 million women working as factory operatives - this was a 112% increase since before the war. [8] The aviation industry saw the highest increase in female workers during the war.