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

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

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2004.

xi, 297 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003020095.html

Bibliography Note:

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.

Labor unions -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century.

Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History.

Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century

United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.

Cherny, Robert W.

Issel, William.

Taylor, Kieran Walsh.

Grassroots politics and postwar political culture

Catalog Source No.:

(OCoLC)ocm53021361

081353402X (hardcover : alk. paper)

0813534038 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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