{"product_id":"arms-country-and-class","title":"Arms, Country, and Class","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1949 and 1950, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled many left-wing unions, representing 750,000 workers, because they were supposedly Communist-dominated. This collection of previously unpublished essays explores the history of those eleven left-led unions. Some essays consider specific aspects of several unions--the Longshoremen, the United Electricians (UE), the Fur Workers, and the Food and Tobacco Workers--while others take up the impact of the federal government's and the Catholic church's anticommunism upon the unions as a whole. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection also addresses central domestic issues of twentieth-century America: race and government policy in the shaping of trade unionism; the impact of anticommunism and the cold war on race relations and working conditions; and the short- and long-range impact of the expulsions upon the labor movement. With groundbreaking essays that also concern the post-World War II period, Southern workers and workers in non-basic industries, this book will appeal to students of radicalism, race relations, anticommunism, and labor history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Steve Rosswurm","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43574186115254,"sku":"9780813514727","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780813514727_ce0c4fe9-a66e-4275-9bd3-9dca2f6ed707.jpg?v=1734619125","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/arms-country-and-class","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}