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Learning from history: community-run child-care centers in United States during World War II | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal links.org.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from links.org.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
December 11, 2020
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Reports from the Economic Front This is the first in a series of posts that aim to describe and evaluate the World War II mobilization experience in the United States in order to illuminate some of the economic and political challenges we can expect to face as we work for a Green New Deal.
This post highlights the successful government directed wartime reorientation of the U.S. economy from civilian to military production, an achievement that both demonstrates the feasibility of a rapid Green New Deal transformation of the U.S. economy and points to the kinds of organizational capacities we will need to develop. The post also highlights some of the strategies employed by big business to successfully stamp the wartime transformation as a victory for “market freedom,” an outcome that strengthened capital’s ability to dominate the postwar U.S. political economy and suggests the kind