At work in the atomic city : a labor and social history of Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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1014605 Item available
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Creators & Publishers
Publisher
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,
Metadata
ISBN
1572333243
Collection
Regular item
Year
2004
Description

Oak Ridge National Laboratory--Nuclear weapons industry--Tennessee--Employees--History. The birth of Oak Ridge -- Recruiting workers -- Who controls the job site? : construction and skilled trade workers -- The world of work -- "Could be eaten without harm" -- The end of the War and the transformation of community, 1945-1948 -- Postwar labor organizing and the transformation of community -- Victory in the community, stalemate at the bargaining table -- Postwar occupational health and safety problems -- The reckoning.