Schuhrke Jeff - Blue - Collar Empire The Untold Story Of Us Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Blue - Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL - CIO's global anticommunist crusade and its devastating consequences for workers around the world. Unions have the power not only to secure pay raises and employee benefits but 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. In this work Washington found an enthusiastic partner in the AFL - CIO's anticommunist officials who in a shocking betrayal for decades expended their energies to block revolutionary ideologies and militant class consciousness from taking hold in the workers movements of Europe Latin America Africa and Asia.
Title: Blue - Collar Empire The Untold Story Of Us Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade
Author(s): Schuhrke Jeff
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781839769054
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 9/24/2024
Category: Trade Unions