American Labor and the Cold War
Title | American Labor and the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Robert W. Cherny |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780813534039 |
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 1930s and the end of the war produce so few results by the 1960s? 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.
Confronting American Labor
Title | Confronting American Labor PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey W. Coker |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0826263577 |
Confronting American Labor traces the development of the American left, from the Depression era through the Cold War, by examining four representative intellectuals who grappled with the difficult question of labor's role in society. Since the time of Marx, leftists have raised over and over the question of how an intelligentsia might participate in a movement carried out by the working class. Their modus operandi was to champion those who suffered injustice at the hands of the powerful. From the late nineteenth through much of the twentieth century, this meant a focus on the industrial worker. The Great Depression was a time of remarkable consensus among leftist intellectuals, who often interpreted worker militancy as the harbinger of impending radical change. While most Americans waited out the crisis, listening to the assurances of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Marxian left was convinced that the crisis was systemic. Intellectuals who came of age during the Depression developed the view that the labor movement in America was to be the organizing base for a proletariat. Moreover, many came from working-class backgrounds that contributed to their support of labor.
Labor's Cold War
Title | Labor's Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Shelton Stromquist |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Anti-communist movements |
ISBN | 0252074696 |
How the Cold War affected local-level union politics
American Labor's Global Ambassadors
Title | American Labor's Global Ambassadors PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Anthony Waters Jr. |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2013-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1137360224 |
After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions from leading historians to explore its successes, challenges, and inevitable compromises as it pursued these initiatives during the Cold War.
The Cold War Against Labor
Title | The Cold War Against Labor PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Fagan Ginger |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War
Title | International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Denis MacShane |
Publisher | |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
This is the first major study of trade unions in the launch of the Cold War in the 1940s. Using unpublished archival material from Europe and the United States, MacShane challenges existing interpretations of international labor's role in the Cold War. He argues that European traditions and olitical differences were more important than American interventions in determining labor's attitudes to international problems after the Second World War.
Cold War in the Working Class
Title | Cold War in the Working Class PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Filippelli |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780791421819 |
This book tells the story of the rise and decline of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) from 1933 to 1990. Once the third-largest industrial union in the United States, the UE was the most powerful left-wing institution in U.S. history and arguably the most significant victim of the anti-communist purges that marked post-World War II America. This is an institutional study of the formation of the UE and the struggle for its control by left-wing and right-wing factions. Unlike most books on unions during the Cold War, this study carries the story up to the present, showing the long-term effects of the ideological battles.