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

How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad

List of contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I
FREE TRADE UNIONISM (1945–1960)
1 Th e Free Trade Union Committee
2 Good Neighbors
3 A Larger Pie
4 Joining the CIA
5 Inter-Americanism
6 Merger

Part II
FREE LABOR DEVELOPMENT (1960–1973)
7 Comradely Brainwashing
8 Intervenors
9 Mama Maida
10 Vietnam
11 Exposed

Part III
FREE MARKET REVOLUTION (1973–1995)
12 Crisis
13 New Blood
14 Endowing Democracy
15 Civil War
16 Hollow Victory

Conclusion

Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

About the author

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 at Diplomatic History and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History.

Summary

How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Schuhrke
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.09.2024
• EAN: 9781839769054
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-905-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Labour / income economics, Trade Unions, Labour Economics, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Espionage & secret services, Sociology: work & labour, Espionage and secret services, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), The Cold War, Sociology: work and labour, Cold wars and proxy conflicts