Cold War In The Working Class

Author : Ronald L. Filippelli,Mark McColloch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0791421813

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Cold War in the Working Class by Ronald L. Filippelli,Mark McColloch Pdf

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.

Author : Shelton Stromquist
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anti-communist movements
ISBN : 9780252074691

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Labor's Cold War by Shelton Stromquist Pdf

How the Cold War affected local-level union politics

Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691228235

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Working-Class Americanism by Gary Gerstle Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Weiler
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804714649

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British Labour and the Cold War by Peter Weiler Pdf

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.

Author : Anthony Carew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1771992123

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American Labour's Cold War Abroad by Anthony Carew Pdf

During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely anti-communist American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), set a strong example for labour organizations overseas. The AFL-CIO cooperated closely with the US government on foreign policy and enjoyed an intimate, if sometimes strained, relationship with the CIA. The activities of its international staff, and especially the often secretive work of Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown--whose biographies read like characters plucked from a Le Carré novel--exerted a major influence on relationships in Europe and beyond. Having mastered the enormous volume of correspondence and other records generated by staffers Lovestone and Brown, Carew presents a lively and clear account of what has largely been an unknown dimension of the Cold War. In impressive detail, Carew maps the international programs of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War and its relations with labour organizations abroad, in addition to providing a summary of the labour situation of a dozen or more countries including Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Greece, and India. American Labour's Cold War Abroad reveals how the Cold War compelled trade unionists to reflect on the role of unions in a free society. Yet there was to be no meeting of minds on this, and at the end of the 1960s the AFL-CIO broke with the mainstream of the international labour movement to pursue its own crusade against communism.

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002218520

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Class and Culture in Cold War America by George Lipsitz Pdf

Author : Colleen Doody
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252094446

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Detroit's Cold War by Colleen Doody Pdf

Detroit's Cold War locates the roots of American conservatism in a city that was a nexus of labor and industry in postwar America. Drawing on meticulous archival research focusing on Detroit, Colleen Doody shows how conflict over business values and opposition to labor, anticommunism, racial animosity, and religion led to the development of a conservative ethos in the aftermath of World War II. Using Detroit--with its large population of African-American and Catholic immigrant workers, strong union presence, and starkly segregated urban landscape--as a case study, Doody articulates a nuanced understanding of anticommunism during the Red Scare. Looking beyond national politics, she focuses on key debates occurring at the local level among a wide variety of common citizens. In examining this city's social and political fabric, Doody illustrates that domestic anticommunism was a cohesive, multifaceted ideology that arose less from Soviet ideological incursion than from tensions within the American public.

Author : Angela Vergara
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780271047836

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Copper Workers, International Business, and Domestic Politics in Cold War Chile by Angela Vergara Pdf

Author : Ingo Schmidt,Bryan Evans
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926836874

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Social Democracy After the Cold War by Ingo Schmidt,Bryan Evans Pdf

"Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global capitalism swept social democrats into power in many Western countries. The resurgence was, however, brief. Neither the recurring economic crises of the 2000s nor the ongoing War on Terror was conducive to social democracy, which soon gave way to a prolonged decline in countries where social democrats had once held power. Arguing that neither globalization nor demographic change was key to the failure of social democracy, the contributors to this volume analyze the rise and decline of Third Way social democracy and seek to lay the groundwork for the reformulation of progressive class politics. Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an influential political force--Sweden, Germany, Britain, and Australia--while also considering the history of Canada's NDP, the social democratic tradition in the United States, and the emergence of New Left parties in Germany and the province of Québec. The case studies point to a social democracy that has confirmed its rupture with the postwar order and its role as the primary political representative of workingclass interests. Once marked by redistributive and egalitarian policy perspectives, social democracy has, the book argues, assumed a new role--that of a modernizing force advancing the neoliberal cause." -- Publisher's website.

Author : Robert W. Cherny,William Issel,Kieran Walsh Taylor
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813534038

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American Labor and the Cold War by Robert W. Cherny,William Issel,Kieran Walsh Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : Joshua B. Freeman
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781620977088

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Working-Class New York by Joshua B. Freeman Pdf

A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demise More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. Largely through the efforts of its working class and the dynamic labor movement it built, New York City became the envied model of liberal America and the scourge of conservatives everywhere: cheap and easy-to-use mass transit, work in small businesses and factories that had good wages and benefits, affordable public housing, and healthcare for all. Working-Class New York is an “engrossing” (Dissent) account of the birth of that ideal and the way it came crashing down. In what Publishers Weekly calls “absorbing and beautifully detailed history,” historian Joshua Freeman shows how the anticommunist purges of the 1950s decimated the ranks of the labor movement and demoralized its idealists, and how the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s dealt another crushing blow to liberal ideals as the city’s wealthy elite made a frenzied grab for power. A grand work of cultural and social history, Working-Class New York is a moving chronicle of a dream that died but may yet rise again.

Author : Herrick Chapman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520071255

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State Capitalism and Working-class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry by Herrick Chapman Pdf

"Using the example of the aircraft industry, which takes him like an arrow to the heart of many of the key conflicts in French life between 1936 and 1948, Herrick Chapman has written a penetrating and exceptionally well documented account of the way that France developed her present style of industrial relations, in which the state plays such a central role. No book I know so successfully integrates the history of aviation . . . with the political and social history of France. Both thorough and thoughtful, it is an impressive achievement."--Robert Wohl, University of California, Los Angeles "An unusual, innovative book based on impressive research that throws new light in a major way on twentieth-century French politics and society . . . one of the most interesting and original monographs in modern French history in a long time."--Robert O. Paxton, Columbia University "This is a breakthrough of considerable importance. [Chapman] will become the leading North American, perhaps even English-speaking, historian of contemporary France."--George Ross, Brandeis University

Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell,Ian Walter Radforth
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781551302980

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Canadian Working-class History by Laurel Sefton MacDowell,Ian Walter Radforth Pdf

Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights; women's equality; gender history; Quebec sovereignty; and the environment.

Author : Christian G. Appy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860113

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Working-Class War by Christian G. Appy Pdf

No one can understand the complete tragedy of the American experience in Vietnam without reading this book. Nothing so underscores the ambivalence and confusion of the American commitment as does the composition of our fighting forces. The rich and the powerful may have supported the war initially, but they contributed little of themselves. That responsibility fell to the poor and the working class of America.--Senator George McGovern "Reminds us of the disturbing truth that some 80 percent of the 2.5 million enlisted men who served in Vietnam--out of 27 million men who reached draft age during the war--came from working-class and impoverished backgrounds. . . . Deals especially well with the apparent paradox that the working-class soldiers' families back home mainly opposed the antiwar movement, and for that matter so with few exceptions did the soldiers themselves.--New York Times Book Review "[Appy's] treatment of the subject makes it clear to his readers--almost as clear as it became for the soldiers in Vietnam--that class remains the tragic dividing wall between Americans.--Boston Globe

Author : Friedrich Engels
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442936911

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Condition of the Working-Class in England by Friedrich Engels Pdf

This masterpiece by Engels reflects his views on the plight of labour classes in England. It is based on his in-depth research and parliamentary reports. In a factual and analytic manner he has voiced his support for fundamental human rights. It is an emphatic protest against the barbarianism of capitalism and industrialization. A prototypical opus!