American labor and the Cold War: grassroots politics and postwar political culture

List of Abbreviations......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction, Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Walsh Taylor......Page 16
Labor and the Cold War: The Legacy of McCarthyism, Ellen Schrecker......Page 22
Uncivil War: An Oral History of Labor, Communism, and Community in Schenectady, New York, 1944–1954, Gerald Zahavi......Page 40
Mixed Melody: Anticommunism and the United Packinghouse Workers in California Agriculture, 1954–1961, Don Watson......Page 73
The United Packinghouse Workers of America, Civil Rights, and the Communist Party in Chicago: Randi Storch......Page 87
“An Anarchist with a Program”: East Coast Shipyard Workers, the Labor Left, and the Origins of Cold War Unionism, David Palmer......Page 100
The Battle for Standard Coil: The United Electrical Workers, the Community Service Organization, and the Catholic Church in Latino East Los Angeles, Kenneth C. Burt......Page 133
Popular Anticommunism and the UE in Evansville, Indiana, Samuel W. White......Page 156
“A Stern Struggle”: Catholic Activism and San Francisco Labor, 1934–1958, William Issel......Page 169
Memories of the Red Decade: HUAC Investigations in Maryland, Vernon L. Pedersen......Page 192
Negotiating Cold War Politics: The Washington Pension Union and the Labor Left in the 1940s and 1950s, Margaret Miller......Page 205
The Lost World of United States Labor Education: Curricula at East and West Coast Communist Schools, 1944–1957, Marvin Gettleman......Page 220
Operation Dixie, the Red Scare, and the Defeat of Southern Labor Organizing, Michael K. Honey......Page 231
“A Dangerous Demagogue”: Containing the In.uence of the Mexican Labor-Left and Its United States Allies, Gigi Peterson......Page 260
Contributors......Page 292
Index......Page 296