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9780252032226: Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context
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ISBN 10 : 0252032225 ISBN 13 : 9780252032226
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2008

Synopsis

Examining the impact of American Cold War politics on disparate local arenas, Labor's Cold War reveals that anticommunist challenges reshaped local political cultures and set the stage for new rounds of political debate.

The contributors demonstrate that the anticommunist movement was more diverse, more pervasive, and more sharply and creatively contested than historians have realized. Yet workers and their allies defended ongoing progressive politics at the local level. Examples include fights for fair employment and public housing; the expansion of New Deal-style regional development; the abolition of racial and ethnic discrimination policies; and workplace policies from the right to organize to a voice in wage and price controls. Local political stories from New Mexico, California, occupied Japan, Milwaukee, Detroit, St. Louis, and Schenectedy provide important alternative perspectives on the transformative power of anticommunism in the postwar period and contribute to an ongoing revision of the history of Cold War America and its political legacies.

Contributors: Kenneth Burt, Robert W. Cherny, Rosemary Feurer, Eric Fure-Slocum, Christopher Gerteis, Lisa Kannenberg, David Lewis-Colman, James J. Lorence, Shelton Stromquist, and Seth Wigderson.

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À propos de l?auteur

Shelton Stromquist is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Reinventing "The People" The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism and coeditor of Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia.

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Éditeur
University of Illinois Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0252032225
ISBN 13 
9780252032226
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Éditeur
Stromquist Shelton
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Personne responsable
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Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2008
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