At Work In The Atomic City: A Labor And Social History Of Oak Ridge, Tennessee
By Russell Olwell.
Description
Founded during World War II, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a vital link in the U.S. military’s atomic bomb assembly line—the site where scientists worked at a breakneck pace to turn tons of uranium into a few grams of the artificial element plutonium. To construct and operate the plants needed for this effort, thousands of workers, both skilled and unskilled, converged on the “city behind a fence” tucked between two ridges of sparsely populated farmland in the Tennessee hills.At Work in the Atomic City explores the world of those workers and their efforts to form unions,...
ISBN(s)
1572333243, 9781572333246
