Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. List of Illustrations ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Labor and the Cold War: The Legacy of McCarthyism 7
8. Uncivil War: An Oral History of Labor, Communism, and Community in Schenectady, New York, 1944–1954 25
9. Mixed Melody: Anticommunism and the United Packinghouse Workers in California Agriculture, 1954–1961 58
10. The United Packinghouse Workers of America, Civil Rights, and the Communist Party in Chicago 72
11. “An Anarchist with a Program”: East Coast Shipyard Workers, the Labor Left, and the Origins of Cold War Unionism 85
12. The Battle for Standard Coil: The United Electrical Workers, the Community Service Organization, and the Catholic Church in Latino East Los Angeles 118
13. Popular Anticommunism and the UE in Evansville, Indiana 141
14. “A Stern Struggle”: Catholic Activism and San Francisco Labor, 1934–1958 154
15. Memories of the Red Decade: HUAC Investigations in Maryland 177
16. Negotiating Cold War Politics: The Washington Pension Union and the Labor Left in the 1940s and 1950s 190
17. The Lost World of United States Labor Education: Curricula at East and West Coast Communist Schools, 1944–1957 205
18. Operation Dixie, the Red Scare, and the Defeat of Southern Labor Organizing 216
19. “A Dangerous Demagogue”: Containing the Influence of the Mexican Labor-Left and Its United States Allies 245
20. Contributors 277
21. Index 281