William J Breen
Biographic Data
| ID | 693041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William J Breen |
| GIVEN NAMES | William J |
| FAMILY NAME | Breen |
| SIGNATURE | BREEN W J |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
Mark R. Wilson has made an outstanding contribution to the historical debate about U.S. industrial mobilization in World War II. Destructive Creation focuses on the substantial but largely ignored public sector contribution to the industrial war effort and argues that overemphasizing the role of the private sector and the relative neglect of the public sector in the historical literature has distorted our understanding of that wartime production …
Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front
Labor, Loyalty, & Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I
Carl R. Weinberg argues that World War I triggered a seesaw struggle between patriotism and class interests among southwestern Illinois coal miners, who suffered from “an impossible dream” (p. 199) that they could be both patriotic and class-conscious. An ethnically diverse group with a sizable proportion of German origin, the Illinois coal miners were represented by the United Mine Workers of America (umwa), which was itself politically divided …
Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
This historical survey asks why American employers, unlike their European counterparts, managed to retain effective control over their labor markets. David Brian Robertson, a political scientist, argues that America's labor market experience was not always exceptional. The turning point came at the beginning of the twentieth century when the American Federation of Labor (afl) adopted an aggressive “union shop” policy. That decision prompted an eq…
Social Science and State Policy in World War II: Human Relations, Pedagogy, and Industrial Training, 1940–1945
During World War II, the organization Training Within Industry (TWI) developed programs to help industry cope with the flood of new and unskilled war workers. Guided by representatives of the new profession of personnel management and assisted by university-based social scientists, the organization developed innovative methods of industrial training that drew on both the scientific management tradition and the newer human relations approach foste…
Race, Jobs, and the War: The Fepc in the Midwest, 1941-46
Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865- 1919
Journal Article Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xiv, 391 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-0860-5.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1633–1634, htt…
Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933
Journal Article Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907–1933. By William J. Breen. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. xx, 233 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-559-4.) Get access Stanley Shapiro Stanley Shapiro Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issu…
Labor-Market Statistics and the State: The United States in the Era of the Great War, 1914–1930
In recent years scholars from various disciplines have begun to explore new questions concerning the role of the state in society. This article is related to two aspects of this emerging scholarship, namely, the work of scholars interested in the relationship between the state and the production and utilization of knowledge and the related work of what has been called the historical institutional group. Scholars working on the role of the state i…
Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy, 1914-1924
Journal Article Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy, 1914–1924. By Elizabeth McKillen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. xvi, 239 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-2905-6.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 243–244, https://doi.org/10.2307/294…
Industrial Training and Craft Dilution in World War I: Unions, Employers, and the State, 1917–1919
Foundations, Statistics, and State-Building: Leonard P. Ayres, the Russell Sage Foundation, and U.S. Government Statistics in the First World War
This article examines the statistical work done by Leonard Porter Ayres for the Council of National Defense during the First World War. Director of statistics for the Russell Sage Foundation when war was declared, Ayres immediately volunteered his own and the foundation's statistical expertise. The article focuses on the first year of American intervention in the war and argues that Ayres's important statistical work evolved in three overlapping …
The mobilization of skilled labor in World War I: “Voluntarism,” the U.S. public service reserve, and the Department of Labor, 1917–1918
An Active Instrument for Propaganda: The American Public Library During World War I
Journal Article “An Active Instrument for Propaganda”: The American Public Library During World War I. By Wayne A. Wiegand. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 193 pp. $39.95.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 708, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079292 Published: 01 Septe…
The labor market, the reform impetus, and the great war: The reorganization of the state-city employment exchanges in Ohio, 1914–1918
Reformers and War: American Progressive Publicists and the First World War
Journal Article Reformers and War: American Progressive Publicists and the First World War. By John A. Thompson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xi + 300 pp. $32.50.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 992–993, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901678 Published…
Administrative Politics and Labor Policy in the First World War: The U.S. Employment Service and the Seattle Labor Market Experiment
Although Woodrow Wilson's administration was slow to develop a coherent, comprehensive labor policy during the First World War, it did experiment with a scheme designed to test the effectiveness of centralized government control over the labor market. This experiment, confined to shipyard labor in the Seattle district, involved a cooperative agreement among shipyard management, organized labor, the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Lab…
Uncle Sam at Home: Civilian Mobilization, Wartime Federalism, and the Council of National Defense, 1917-1919
Journal Article Uncle Sam at Home: Civilian Mobilization, Wartime Federalism, and the Council of National Defense, 1917–1919. By William J. Breen. (Westport: Greenwood, 1984. xvii + 279 pp. Illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $29.95.) Get access Daniel R. Beaver Daniel R. Beaver Center for Military History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March…
Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921
Journal Article Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917–1921. By Robert H. Ferrell. (New York: Harper & Row, 1985. xii + 346 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908959 Published: 01 Ma…
Uncle Sam at Home: Civilian Mobilization, Wartime Federalism, and the Council of National Defense, 1917-1919
Europe
Mobilization and Cooperative Federalism: The Connecticut State Council of Defense, 1917‐1919
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam J. BreenThe author is Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He acknowledges the financial assistance of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Council of La Trobe University
Black Women and the Great War: Mobilization and Reform in the South
Social Science and State Policy in World War II: Human Relations, Pedagogy, and Industrial Training, 1940–1945
During World War II, the organization Training Within Industry (TWI) developed programs to help industry cope with the flood of new and unskilled war workers. Guided by representatives of the new profession of personnel management and assisted by university-based social scientists, the organization developed innovative methods of industrial training that drew on both the scientific management tradition and the newer human relations approach foste…
Foundations, Statistics, and State-Building: Leonard P. Ayres, the Russell Sage Foundation, and U.S. Government Statistics in the First World War
This article examines the statistical work done by Leonard Porter Ayres for the Council of National Defense during the First World War. Director of statistics for the Russell Sage Foundation when war was declared, Ayres immediately volunteered his own and the foundation's statistical expertise. The article focuses on the first year of American intervention in the war and argues that Ayres's important statistical work evolved in three overlapping …
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
Mark R. Wilson has made an outstanding contribution to the historical debate about U.S. industrial mobilization in World War II. Destructive Creation focuses on the substantial but largely ignored public sector contribution to the industrial war effort and argues that overemphasizing the role of the private sector and the relative neglect of the public sector in the historical literature has distorted our understanding of that wartime production …
Administrative Politics and Labor Policy in the First World War: The U.S. Employment Service and the Seattle Labor Market Experiment
Although Woodrow Wilson's administration was slow to develop a coherent, comprehensive labor policy during the First World War, it did experiment with a scheme designed to test the effectiveness of centralized government control over the labor market. This experiment, confined to shipyard labor in the Seattle district, involved a cooperative agreement among shipyard management, organized labor, the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Lab…
Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921
Journal Article Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917–1921. By Robert H. Ferrell. (New York: Harper & Row, 1985. xii + 346 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908959 Published: 01 Ma…
Industrial Training and Craft Dilution in World War I: Unions, Employers, and the State, 1917–1919
Black Women and the Great War: Mobilization and Reform in the South
Mobilization and Cooperative Federalism: The Connecticut State Council of Defense, 1917‐1919
Additional informationNotes on contributorsWilliam J. BreenThe author is Senior Lecturer in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. He acknowledges the financial assistance of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Council of La Trobe University
Uncle Sam at Home: Civilian Mobilization, Wartime Federalism, and the Council of National Defense, 1917-1919
Europe
Uncle Sam at Home: Civilian Mobilization, Wartime Federalism, and the Council of National Defense, 1917-1919
Journal Article Uncle Sam at Home: Civilian Mobilization, Wartime Federalism, and the Council of National Defense, 1917–1919. By William J. Breen. (Westport: Greenwood, 1984. xvii + 279 pp. Illustrations, notes, essay on sources, and index. $29.95.) Get access Daniel R. Beaver Daniel R. Beaver Center for Military History Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March…
Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917-1921
Journal Article Woodrow Wilson and World War I, 1917–1921. By Robert H. Ferrell. (New York: Harper & Row, 1985. xii + 346 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 4, March 1986, Pages 986–987, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908959 Published: 01 Ma…
Administrative Politics and Labor Policy in the First World War: The U.S. Employment Service and the Seattle Labor Market Experiment
Although Woodrow Wilson's administration was slow to develop a coherent, comprehensive labor policy during the First World War, it did experiment with a scheme designed to test the effectiveness of centralized government control over the labor market. This experiment, confined to shipyard labor in the Seattle district, involved a cooperative agreement among shipyard management, organized labor, the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Lab…
The labor market, the reform impetus, and the great war: The reorganization of the state-city employment exchanges in Ohio, 1914–1918
Reformers and War: American Progressive Publicists and the First World War
Journal Article Reformers and War: American Progressive Publicists and the First World War. By John A. Thompson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. xi + 300 pp. $32.50.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 992–993, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901678 Published…
An Active Instrument for Propaganda: The American Public Library During World War I
Journal Article “An Active Instrument for Propaganda”: The American Public Library During World War I. By Wayne A. Wiegand. (Westport: Greenwood, 1989. xiv + 193 pp. $39.95.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 2, September 1990, Page 708, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079292 Published: 01 Septe…
The mobilization of skilled labor in World War I: “Voluntarism,” the U.S. public service reserve, and the Department of Labor, 1917–1918
Foundations, Statistics, and State-Building: Leonard P. Ayres, the Russell Sage Foundation, and U.S. Government Statistics in the First World War
This article examines the statistical work done by Leonard Porter Ayres for the Council of National Defense during the First World War. Director of statistics for the Russell Sage Foundation when war was declared, Ayres immediately volunteered his own and the foundation's statistical expertise. The article focuses on the first year of American intervention in the war and argues that Ayres's important statistical work evolved in three overlapping …
Industrial Training and Craft Dilution in World War I: Unions, Employers, and the State, 1917–1919
Labor-Market Statistics and the State: The United States in the Era of the Great War, 1914–1930
In recent years scholars from various disciplines have begun to explore new questions concerning the role of the state in society. This article is related to two aspects of this emerging scholarship, namely, the work of scholars interested in the relationship between the state and the production and utilization of knowledge and the related work of what has been called the historical institutional group. Scholars working on the role of the state i…
Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy, 1914-1924
Journal Article Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy, 1914–1924. By Elizabeth McKillen. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. xvi, 239 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-2905-6.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Pages 243–244, https://doi.org/10.2307/294…
Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907-1933
Journal Article Labor Market Politics and the Great War: The Department of Labor, the States, and the First U.S. Employment Service, 1907–1933. By William J. Breen. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997. xx, 233 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-87338-559-4.) Get access Stanley Shapiro Stanley Shapiro Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issu…
Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865- 1919
Journal Article Mobilizing for Modern War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1865–1919. By Paul A. C. Koistinen. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xiv, 391 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-0860-5.) Get access William J. Breen William J. Breen La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1633–1634, htt…
Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origins of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921
Race, Jobs, and the War: The Fepc in the Midwest, 1941-46
Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor Markets from the Civil War to the New Deal
This historical survey asks why American employers, unlike their European counterparts, managed to retain effective control over their labor markets. David Brian Robertson, a political scientist, argues that America's labor market experience was not always exceptional. The turning point came at the beginning of the twentieth century when the American Federation of Labor (afl) adopted an aggressive “union shop” policy. That decision prompted an eq…
Social Science and State Policy in World War II: Human Relations, Pedagogy, and Industrial Training, 1940–1945
During World War II, the organization Training Within Industry (TWI) developed programs to help industry cope with the flood of new and unskilled war workers. Guided by representatives of the new profession of personnel management and assisted by university-based social scientists, the organization developed innovative methods of industrial training that drew on both the scientific management tradition and the newer human relations approach foste…
Labor, Loyalty, & Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I
Carl R. Weinberg argues that World War I triggered a seesaw struggle between patriotism and class interests among southwestern Illinois coal miners, who suffered from “an impossible dream” (p. 199) that they could be both patriotic and class-conscious. An ethnically diverse group with a sizable proportion of German origin, the Illinois coal miners were represented by the United Mine Workers of America (umwa), which was itself politically divided …
Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front
Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II
Mark R. Wilson has made an outstanding contribution to the historical debate about U.S. industrial mobilization in World War II. Destructive Creation focuses on the substantial but largely ignored public sector contribution to the industrial war effort and argues that overemphasizing the role of the private sector and the relative neglect of the public sector in the historical literature has distorted our understanding of that wartime production …
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