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Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade

by Blue-Collar Empire: The Untold Story of Us Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade

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How the CIA used American unions to undermine workers at home and subvert democracy abroad

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.

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  • Verso Brand
  • Sep 24, 2024 Pub Date:
  • 183976905X ISBN-10:
  • 9781839769054 ISBN-13:
  • English Language
  • 9.2 in * 0.84 in * 6.01 in Dimensions:
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