Following Japan’s surrender ending World War II, major defense contractors including Boeing, Lockheed, General Dynamics, and converted automotive manufacturers face the challenge of transitioning from massive wartime production to peacetime economy. The War Production Board, which directed …
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the War Production Board (WPB) to coordinate wartime production, staffing it with corporate executives as ‘dollar-a-year men.’ This establishes a precedent for corporate-government partnership where business leaders shape government policy while …
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President Roosevelt establishes the National War Labor Board (NWLB) by executive order on January 12, 1942, creating a tripartite body of labor, industry, and public representatives to arbitrate wartime labor disputes. In exchange for labor’s “no-strike pledge” for the duration of …
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