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Book American Labor and the Cold War

Download or read book American Labor and the Cold War written by Robert W. Cherny and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Communist Domination of Unions and National Security

Download or read book Communist Domination of Unions and National Security written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Labor and Labor-Management Relations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (81) S. 249, (82) S. 2548, (82) S. 1975.

Book Investigation of Communist Infiltration Into Labor Unions which Serve the Industries of the United States  Interim Report

Download or read book Investigation of Communist Infiltration Into Labor Unions which Serve the Industries of the United States Interim Report written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who Rules America Now

Download or read book Who Rules America Now written by G. William Domhoff and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1986 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is convinced that there is a ruling class in America today. He examines the American power structure as it has developed in the 1980s. He presents systematic, empirical evidence that a fixed group of privileged people dominates the American economy and government. The book demonstrates that an upper class comprising only one-half of one percent of the population occupies key positions within the corporate community. It shows how leaders within this "power elite" reach government and dominate it through processes of special-interest lobbying, policy planning and candidate selection. It is written not to promote any political ideology, but to analyze our society with accuracy.

Book Epitaph for American Labor

Download or read book Epitaph for American Labor written by Max Green and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No institution in America has changed more in the past 25 years, observes Max Green, than the American labour movements. Green documents the descent into radicalism of these unions and concludes that as currently constituted and led, they no longer serve the public or national interest.

Book Investigation of Communist Infiltration Into Labor Unions which Serve the Industries of the United States  Interim Report

Download or read book Investigation of Communist Infiltration Into Labor Unions which Serve the Industries of the United States Interim Report written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Investigation of Communist Infiltration Into Labor Unions which Serve the Industries of the United States  Interim Report

Download or read book Investigation of Communist Infiltration Into Labor Unions which Serve the Industries of the United States Interim Report written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Questions and Answers to American Trade Unionists

Download or read book Questions and Answers to American Trade Unionists written by Joseph Stalin and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The War On Labor And The Left

Download or read book The War On Labor And The Left written by Patricia Cayo Sexton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In all countries, labour has war stories" to tell, but none are so violent as those of American labour. Since the 1870s at least 700 workers have been killed and thousands seriously injured in labour disputes. Nowhere but in this country have employers so actively fought back against strikes through the use of scabs," surveillance, and mercenary armies.Although much of the violence occurred decades ago, author Patricia Sexton contends that this rich history sheds light on questions that still plague observers of the American political system: Why has the United States been more conservative in its domestic policies than other Western democracies? Why is it almost alone among them in lacking a mass labour or democratic socialist party,or the kind of social policies favoured by such parties? And why has American labour unionism been in serious decline in recent decades?The most familiar answers to these questions involve consensus explanations of what has come to be known as American exceptionalism. America is conservative, observers say, because its citizens have loved" capitalism and supported its political policies wholeheartedly or because the nation's open frontier and early voting rights reduced dissent and class consciousness. Other explanations focus on various internal constraints said to be unique to the American working class or its organizations, such as conflict among diverse immigrants, the sectarianism and blunders of leftist groups, and the conservatism or incompetence of labour union leadership. All of these are said to have prevented labour from carrying out successful conflicts with employers and economic leaders.According to Sexton, these arguments ignore the remarkable record in American history of labour-left struggles: the violent suppression of industrial unionism prior to the 1930s, legal and forceful repression of trade unionism, and destruction by various means of left-leaning unions and political organizations. Her book explores instead a neglected explanation of American conservatism,that of a literal war on labour, waged by unusually powerful economic entities using repressive strategies, often backed by police and sometimes by federal forces.The details of this violent history, familiar to labour historians, are recounted here in a new perspective emphasizing the impact on workers of conflict sustained over many years. But the book is much more than a reinterpretation of this history. Patricia Sexton shows how the use of power and repression has played out as well in our institutions of law and government, in economic policies, and in the media. Making these links and showing how America's conservatism is unique among other Western democracies is the contribution of this ambitious book. For only by coming to terms with this history of repression and its legacy can we fully understand America's conservatism today.

Book Left Out

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith Stepan-Norris
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780521798402
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Left Out written by Judith Stepan-Norris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Book Communism in Labor Unions

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1954
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book Communism in Labor Unions written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Communist Domination of Unions and National Security

Download or read book Communist Domination of Unions and National Security written by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Communism in American Unions

Download or read book Communism in American Unions written by David Joseph Saposs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics of US Labor

Download or read book Politics of US Labor written by David Milton and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alliance of the industrial labor movement with the Democratic Party under Franklin D. Roosevelt has, perhaps more than any other factor, shaped the course of class relations in the United States over the ensuing forty years. Much has been written on the interests that were thereby served, and those that were coopted. In this detailed examination of the strategies pursued by both radical labor and the capitalist class in the struggle for industrial unionism, David Milton argues that while radical social change and independent political action were traded off by the industrial working class for economic rights, this was neither automatic nor inevitable. Rather, the outcome was the result of a fierce struggle in which capital fought labor and both fought for control over government labor policy. And, as he demonstrates, crucial to the outcome was the specific nature of the political coalitions contending for supremacy. In analyzing the politics of this struggle, Milton presents a fine description of the major strikes, beginning in 1933-1934, that led to the formation of the CIO and the great industrial unions. He looks closely at the role of the radical political groups, including the Communist Party, the Trotskyists, and the Socialist Party, and provides an enlightening discussion of their vulnerability during the red-baiting era. He also examines the battle between the AFL and the CIO for control of the labor movement, the alliance of the AFL with business interests, and the role of the Catholic Church. Finally, he shows how the extraordinary adeptness of President Roosevelt in allying with labor while at the same time exploiting divisions within the movement was essential to the successful channeling of social revolt into economic demands.

Book The Workers   communist  Party and American Trade Unions

Download or read book The Workers communist Party and American Trade Unions written by David Moses Schneider and published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1928 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Communists Within the Labor Movement

Download or read book Communists Within the Labor Movement written by Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Committee on Socialism and Communism and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: