04858nam 2200709 a 450 991034511620332120200520144314.00-8135-3713-41-283-52676-X97866138392130-8135-5505-110.36019/9780813555058(CKB)2670000000240368(EBL)988926(OCoLC)805510899(SSID)ssj0000082884(PQKBManifestationID)11116375(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000082884(PQKBWorkID)10145253(PQKB)10754694(DE-B1597)529109(DE-B1597)9780813555058(OCoLC)57663856(MiAaPQ)EBC988926(EXLCZ)99267000000024036820030911d2004 ub 0engur||#||||||||txtccrAmerican labor and the Cold War grassroots politics and postwar political culture /edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor1st ed.New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University Press20041 online resource (311 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-3402-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexThe 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 the war produce so few results by the 1960's? This collection addresses the history of labor in the postwar years by exploring the impact of the global contest between the United States and the Soviet Union on American workers and labor unions. The essays focus on the actual behavior of Americans in their diverse workplaces and communities during the Cold War. Where previous scholarship on labor and the Cold War has overemphasized the importance of the Communist Party, the automobile industry, and Hollywood, this book focuses on politically moderate, conservative workers and union leaders, the medium-sized cities that housed the majority of the population, and the Roman Catholic Church. These are all original essays that draw upon extensive archival research and some upon oral history sources.Grassroots politics and postwar political cultureLabor unionsPolitical activityUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAnti-communist movementsUnited StatesHistoryCold WarPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1945-1953United StatesPolitics and government1953-1961Labor unionsPolitical activityHistoryAnti-communist movementsHistory.Cold War.Political cultureHistory331.88/0973/09045Cherny Robert W1720178Issel William286761Taylor Kieran Walsh1757829MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910345116203321American labor and the Cold War4195798UNINA