Manpower (1942)

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The film discusses how the Roosevelt administration dealt with the labor market problem by the establishment of the Federal Employment Commission, which brought together representatives from labor, management, and the military to organize war production effectively, the test case being in the city of Baltimore. In spite of this action, there were labor shortages, and people had to be taken from other occupations and put into war work. Different examples are given and briefly dramatized: a man who has seniority working in a white collar profession is promised his position back when he returns to work after the war small businessmen are…

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