Аннотация

The article examines the efforts of American trade unions to stop inflation which was the main economic problem of the period of Reconversion in the USA. It also analyses the struggle of labor for the increase of wages, focusing on the “strike wave” of 1945–1946. The author considers the causes of the defeat of labor in its campaign to improve the standard of living of American workers, showing that business supported by government managed to shift off the burdens of Reconversion on the working people of the U.S.A.