American Labor and the Cold War /

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 1930's and the end of th...

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Otros Autores: Zahavi, Gerald, White, Samuel, Watson, Don, Taylor, Kiernan Walsh (Editor ), Storch, Randi, Schrecker, Ellen, Peterson, Gigi, Pedersen, Vernon, Palmer, David, Miller, Margaret, Issel, William (Editor ), Honey, Michael, Gettleman, Marvin, Cherny, Robert (Editor ), Burt, Kenneth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Political culture.
Labor unions > Political activity.
Anti-communist movements.
Anticommunisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Syndicats > Histoire > Activite politique > États-Unis > 20e siecle.
Cold War > United States > History
Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Labor unions > History > Political activity > United States > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Labor and the Cold War: The Legacy of McCarthyism
  • Uncivil War: An Oral History of Labor, Communism, and Community in Schenectady, New York, 1944-1954
  • Mixed Melody: Anticommunism and the United Packinghouse Workers in California Agriculture, 1954-1961
  • The United Packinghouse Workers of America, Civil Rights, and the Communist Party in Chicago
  • "An Anarchist with a Program": East Coast Shipyard Workers, the Labor Left, and the Origins of Cold War Unionism
  • The Battle for Standard Coil: The United Electrical Workers, the Community Service Organization, and the Catholic Church in Latino East Los Angeles
  • Popular Anticommunism and the UE in Evansville, Indiana
  • "A Stern Struggle": Catholic Activism and San Francisco Labor, 1934-1958
  • Memories of the Red Decade: HUAC Investigations in Maryland
  • Negotiating Cold War Politics: The Washington Pension Union and the Labor Left in the 1940's and 1950's
  • The Lost World of United States Labor Education: Curricula at East and West Coast Communist Schools, 1944-1957
  • Operation Dixie, the Red Scare, and the Defeat of Southern Labor Organizing
  • "A Dangerous Demagogue": Containing the Influence of the Mexican Labor-Left and Its United States Allies
  • Contributors
  • Index

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