American labor and the Cold War : grassroots politics and postwar political culture

American labor and the Cold War : grassroots politics and postwar political culture / edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor.

The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented thirty five percent of non-agricultural workers. Why then did the gains made between the 1930s and the end of the war...

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Other Authors: Cherny, Robert W., Issel, William, Taylor, Kieran Walsh
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Labor unions > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.
Anti-communist movements > United States > History.
Cold War.
Political culture > United States > History > 20th century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Anti-communist movements
Labor unions > Political activity
Political culture
Politics and government
United States > Politics and government > 1945-1953.
United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961.
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Labor and the Cold War: the legacy of McCarthyism / Ellen Schrecker
  • Uncivil war: an oral history of labor, communism, and community in Schenectady, New York, 1944-1954 / Gerald Zahavi
  • Mixed melody: anticommunism and the United Packinghouse Workers in California agriculture, 1954-1961 / Don Watson
  • The United Packinghouse Workers of America, civil rights, and the Communist Party in Chicago / Randi Storch
  • 'An anarchist with a program': east coast shipyard workers, the labor left, and the origins of Cold War unionism / David Palmer
  • The battle for Standard Coil: the United Electrical Workers, the Community Service Organization, and the Catholic church in Latino East Los Angeles / Kenneth C. Burt
  • Popular anticommunism and the UE in Evansville, Indiana / Samuel W. White
  • 'A stern struggle': Catholic activism and San Francisco labor, 1934-1958 / William Issel
  • Memories of the red decade: HUAC investigations in Maryland / Vernon L. Pedersen
  • Negotiating Cold War politics: the Washington Pension Union and the labor left in the 1940s and 1950s / Margaret Miller
  • The lost world of United States labor education: curricula at east and west coast communist schools, 1944-1957 / Marvin Gettleman
  • Operation Dixie, the Red Scare, and the defeat of southern labor organizing / Michael K. Honey
  • 'A dangerous demagogue': containing the influence of the Mexican labor-left and its United States allies / Gigi Peterson.

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