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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jeff SchuhrkePublish date:2024-09-24Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781839769054ISBN-10:183976905XUPC:9781839769054Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Labor & Industrial Relations, Social HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.20 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC6GM2RY2N
How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad

Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade--and its devastating consequences for workers around the world.

Unions have the power not only to secure pay raises and employee benefits but to bring economies to a screeching halt and overthrow governments. Recognizing this, in the late twentieth century, the US government sought to control labor movements abroad as part of the Cold War contest for worldwide supremacy. In this work, Washington found an enthusiastic partner in the AFL-CIO's anticommunist officials, who, in a shocking betrayal, for decades expended their energies to block revolutionary ideologies and militant class consciousness from taking hold in the workers' movements of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781839769054ISBN-10:183976905XUPC:9781839769054Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Labor & Industrial Relations, Social HistoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.20 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC6GM2RY2N
Jeff Schuhrke is a labor historian, journalist, union activist, and assistant professor at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. School of Labor Studies, SUNY Empire State University in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to In These Times and Jacobin, and his scholarship has been published in Diplomatic History and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History.
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