| Description |
ix, 304 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
The working class in American history
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Was all (Cold War) politics local? / Shelton Stromquist -- Anticommunist networks and labor : the Pacific coast in the 1930s / Robert W. Cherny -- Labor's community-based campaigns for economic and environmental planning, and Cold War politics : the UE's St. Louis district, 1941-48 / Rosemary Feurer -- The fight for fair employment and the shifting alliances among Latinos and labor in Cold War Los Angeles / Kenneth C. Burt -- From fellow traveler to friendly witness : Shelton Tappes, liberal anticommunism, and working-class civil rights in the United Auto Workers / David M. Lewis-Colman -- Putting the "I" before "UE" : labor's Cold War in Schenectady-GE / Lisa Kannenberg -- Housing, race, and the Cold War in a labor city / Eric Fure-Slocum -- Mexican American workers, Clinton Jencks, and mine-mill social activism in the southwest, 1945-52 / James J. Lorence -- The wages of anticommunism : U.S. labor and the Korean War / Seth Wigderson -- Subjectivity lost : labor and the Cold War in Occupied Japan / Christopher Gerteis. |
| Subject |
Labor unions -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Cold War.
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Labor unions and communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Stromquist, Shelton, 1943-
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| ISBN |
9780252074691 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0252074696 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780252032226 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0252032225 (cloth : alk. paper |
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