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American labor and the Cold War grassroots politics and postwar political culture
Cherny, Robert W.  Issel, William  Taylor, Kieran Walsh 
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN10: 0813537134 ISBN13: 9780813537139 DDC: 331.88/0973/09045 LCC: HD6510 Edition: (electronic bk.)

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Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Electronic reproduction.NetLibrary.Available to subscribers only.

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