TY  - GEN
T1  - Blue Collar Empire
A1  - Schuhrke, Jeff
LA  - eng
PB  - Verso US
YR  - 2025
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-151243
AB  - Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIOs 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-CIOs 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.
SN  - 9781839769054
SN  - 9781839769078
KW  - History
KW  - Social History
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Labor & Industrial Relations
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas
KW  - bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KNX Industrial relations, health & safety::KNXB Industrial relations::KNXB3 Industrial arbitration & negotiation
ER  -