Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Working Class in American History) - Softcover

 
9780252074691: Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context (Working Class in American History)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252074696 ISBN 13: 9780252074691
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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 previous studies have shown. Even as the national anticommunist movement strengthened, workers and their allies defended ongoing progressive politics at the local level. Examples include struggles for fair employment, over public housing, for expansion of New Deal-style regional development, to abolish racial and ethnic discrimination policies, for rights to union representation, and for 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 the Cold War United States and its political legacies.  
Contributors include 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Shelton Stromquist is a professor of history at the University of Iowa and the author of Reinventing "The People": The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism, and other books.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252074696
ISBN 13 
9780252074691
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Stromquist Shelton
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