Well the government managing the war industry board by attempting to control businesses so the help in the war affect. Also set prices deciding on what factories would produce. Established to help strikes to keep factories running, labor shortage, Union's grew and working conditions improved.
War Collectivism in world war 1 by Murray N. Rothbrad
more than any other single period, world war 1 was the critical watershed for the American business System. It was a "war connectivism"a totally planned economy run largely by big business interests through the instrumentally of the central government, which served as the model, the precedent, and the inspiration for State cooperate capitalism for the reminder of the 20th century.
that inspiration and president emerged not only in the United States, but also in the world economies of the major combatants of world war 1. word collectivism show the big business interests of the Western war that it was possible to shift radically from the previous, lordly flea market, capitalism to a New order marked by strong government, and extensive and pervasive government intervention in planning, for the purpose of providing a network of subsidies and monopolistic privileges to business, and especially to large business, interests. in particular, the economy could be capitalized under the aegis of government, with prices raised in production fixed and restricted, in the classic pattern.
The US reorganized it's economy to produce food, arms, and other goods to support the war effort. The Food Administration helped boost food production to feed both American troops and Allied troops fighting in the war. The Food Administration also encouraged citizens to plant their own "Victory Gardens" to raise their own food. People went without wheat on Mondays, and without meat on Tuesdays, saving the food for the men fighting in the trenches. The US was short on military supplies, at the time they entered WW1. The War Industries Board told factories what to produce and at what price. The War Labor Board helped settle workers disputes in order to prevent strikes and labor unrest, which would slow down production of needed supplies.
