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The untold history of how the CIA used American unions to undermine working class militancy at home and abroad during the Cold War
There is power in a union. Not only the power to secure pay raises and employee benefits, but the power 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.
To subvert overseas unions, Washington found an enthusiastic partner in the AFL-CIO’s anticommunist officials, who for decades expended incredible energy trying to block revolutionary ideologies and militant class consciousness from taking hold in the workers’ movements of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
Blue-Collar Empire tells the sweeping story of the AFL-CIO’s global anticommunist crusade—and the devastating consequences for workers at home and abroad.
Blue-Collar Empire The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade
by Schuhrke, JeffFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2024-09-24
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Author Biography
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.
Table 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
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
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