Table of contents for American Labor and the Cold War edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, Kieran Walsh Taylor


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Labor and the Cold War: The Legacy of McCarthyism
Ellen Schrecker

Uncivil War: An Oral History of Labor, Communism, and Community in Schenectady, New York, 1944–1954
Gerald Zahavi

Mixed Melody: Anti-Communism and the United Packinghouse Workers in California Agriculture, 1954–1961
Don Watson

The United Packinghouse Workers of America, Civil Rights, and the Communist Party in Chicago
Randi Storch

“An Anarchist with a Program”: East Coast Shipyard Workers, the Labor Left, and the Origins of Cold War Unionism
David Palmer

The Battle for Standard Coil: The United Electrical Workers, the Community Services Organization, and the Catholic Church in Latino East Los Angeles
Kenneth Burt

Popular Anti-Communism and the UE in Evansville, Indiana
Samuel White

“A Stern Struggle”: Catholic Activism and San Francisco Labor, 1934–1958
William Issel

Memories of the Red Decade: HUAC Investigations in Maryland
Vernon Pedersen

Negotiating Cold War Politics: The Washington Pension Union and the Labor Left in the 1940s and 1950s
Margaret Miller

The Lost World of U.S. Labor Education: Curricula at East and West Coast Communist Schools, 1944–1957
Marvin Gettleman

Operation Dixie, the Red Scare, and the Defeat of Southern Labor Organizing
Michael Honey

“A Dangerous Demagogue”: Containing the Influence of the Mexican Labor-Left and its U.S. Allies
Gigi Peterson

Contributors

Index