ABSTRACT
As America entered the post-Depression, postwar period, mounting uncertainty left the country at a set of critical junctures for both its political economy and labor relations, which created real possibilities for fundamental change in the overall approach to controlling large corporations. By the end of the decade, Congress had authorized $1.3 billion to deploy American troops in newly created army bases around the world. By the early 1960s, America had a new political economy. An emergent peacetime big government joined a restored big business. In 1947 the Commission on Higher Education, created by President Truman the year before, issued its report on the role of colleges and universities in postwar America. At the end of the war, America found itself at three critical junctures that could fundamentally change its political economy, labor relations, and thus the reliance upon Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) in the nation's regulatory structure.
