Cold War in the Working Class
Title | Cold War in the Working Class PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Filippelli |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1995-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780791421826 |
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.
Class and Culture in Cold War America
Title | Class and Culture in Cold War America PDF eBook |
Author | George Lipsitz |
Publisher | Greenwood |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | History |
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Working-class Americanism
Title | Working-class Americanism PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Gerstle |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2002-03-31 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691089116 |
In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of "Americanism" and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism. He argues that Americanism was a complex, even contradictory, language of nationalism that lent itself to a wide variety of ideological constructions in the years between World War I and the onset of the Cold War. Using the rich and textured material left behind by New England's most powerful textile union--the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket, Rhode Island--Gerstle uncovers for the first time a more varied and more radical working-class discourse.
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
British Labour and the Cold War
Title | British Labour and the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Weiler |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780804714648 |
A critical examination of the labour government and trades Union Congress in the immediate postwar period, this book argues that the Cold War was not just a traditional conflict between states but also an attempt to contain the growth of radical working-class movements at home and abroad. These radical movements, stimulated by the Second World War and its aftermath, seemed to policymakers within the Labour Party and the TUC to threaten British interests. The author contends that the Labour government never seriously considered following a socialist foreign policy, but instead sought to shape political developments throughout the world in ways most conductive to maintaining Britain's traditional economic and imperial interests. The government was able to follow established policies abroad and increasingly at home at least in part because British trade union leaders supported its attempts to prevent radicals and communists from coming to power in trade union movements inside Britain and throughout the world. In so doing, the trade union movement significantly extended its links with the state, in particular by cooperating with it in the sphere of foreign and colonial labour policy.
Shattered Dreams
Title | Shattered Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Kalgaard Ashby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1126 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Working class |
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Who Pays for the Cold War?
Title | Who Pays for the Cold War? PDF eBook |
Author | George Blake |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1949 |
Genre | Cost and standard of living |
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