How Did Ww2 Affect The Economy

Keynesian economics is based around a model that is predominantly private sector. The United States was no different; generally the private sector acts in its own interest, but there were cases in which nationalism and patriotism gets the better of them. Aiding the war effort became a goal for many americans who supported the war, or simply disagreed with a fascist world order. The homefront did not recover solely through government intervention, there were other groups that supported the people, Unions. Though they are designed to help the worker, they took up helping the economy as well.
Despite the growth of huge unions in the mass production industries during the new deal years, labor's role in the World War II economy, outside the realm of collective-bargaining, did not vary much from that of World War I. In both Wars,
With a unified vision it was much easier to have both union members and non members put aside differences to help the nation to go along with with what the government and military needed. Unions by nature are to protect the members, using the centralized bargaining power, but is times of economic downturn and war their vision can become clouded by nationalistic tendencies. This was incredibly important to the war effort. Instead of making more money or increasing break duration, the union leaders thought that killing Nazis and defeating Hitler was more important, and they would help any way they could. This was an incredible victory for the war effort, for if the military was also fighting strikes or negotiations at home, the amount of effort going to the war would be vastly diminished. Workers who were willing to support the troops by working extra hours in war industries such as guns, planes or tanks could make a sizable difference to the battles that were being fought in Europe and the Pacific. As long as the labor force supported the war they had less to worry