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Labor unions --- Officials and employees --- Green, William, --- AFL-CIO --- American Federation of Labor --- Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada --- AFL --- AFT --- AF of L --- A.F.L. --- A.F. of L. --- Amerikanskai︠a︡ federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ truda --- Federação Americana de Trabalho --- Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) --- AFT-KPP --- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. --- Amerikanskai︠a︡ federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ truda-Kongress proizvodstvennykh profsoi︠u︡zov --- Labor leaders --- E-books --- AFT-KPP (Amerikanskai︠a︡ federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ truda-Kongress proizvodstvennykh profsoi︠u︡zov) --- American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

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One of the oldest, strongest, and largest labor organizations in the U.S., the American Federation of Labor (AFL) had 4 million members in over 20,000 union locals during World War II. The AFL played a key role in wartime production and was a major actor in the contentious relationship between the state, organized labor, and the working class in the 1940's. The war years are pivotal in the history of American labor, but books on the AFL's experiences are scant, with far more on the radical Congress of Industrial Unions (CIO). Andrew E. Kersten closes this gap with Labor's Home Front , challenging

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This text contributes to legal and labor history by reinterpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's Hague v. CIO (1939) decision, which upheld a federal district court injunction prohibiting Jersey City boss Frank Hague from obstructing workers from the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) and allies in the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) from meeting in urban public places. The case involved speech and assembly freedoms, rights essential for CIO workers' organizing efforts, but, as the book shows, these rights were submerged under municipal police powers to preserve public order until the court brought them under federal protection of the Fourteenth Amendment in Hague. Revising the conventional view, the book argues that Hague was more than simply a civil liberties victory for workers over a dictatorial, antilabor city boss.

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During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely anti-communist American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) set a strong example for labour organizations overseas. The AFL–CIO cooperated closely with the US government on foreign policy and enjoyed an intimate, if sometimes strained, relationship with the CIA. The activities of its international staff, and especially the often secretive work of Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown—whose biographies read like characters plucked from a Le Carré novel—exerted a major influence on relationships in Europe and beyond. Having mastered the enormous volume of correspondence and other records generated by staffers Lovestone and Brown, Carew presents a lively and clear account of what has largely been an unknown dimension of the Cold War. In impressive detail, Carew maps the international programs of the AFL–CIO during the Cold War and its relations with labour organizations abroad, in addition to providing a summary of the labour situation of a dozen or more countries including Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Greece, and India. American Labour’s Cold War Abroad reveals how the Cold War compelled trade unionists to reflect on the role of unions in a free society. Yet there was to be no meeting of minds on this, and at the end of the 1960s the AFL–CIO broke with the mainstream of the international labour movement to pursue its own crusade against communism.

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Between the Great War and Pearl Harbor, conservative labor leaders declared themselves America's ""first line of defense"" against Communism. In this surprising account, Jennifer Luff shows how the American Federation of Labor fanned popular anticommunism but defended Communists' civil liberties in the aftermath of the 1919 Red Scare. The AFL's ""commonsense anticommunism,"" she argues, steered a middle course between the American Legion and the ACLU, helping to check campaigns for federal sedition laws. But in the 1930s, frustration with the New Dealorder led labor conservatives to redbai

Anti-communist movements --- Communism --- McCarthy, Joseph, --- American Federation of Labor. --- AFL-CIO --- Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada --- AFL --- AFT --- AF of L --- A.F.L. --- A.F. of L. --- Amerikanskai︠a︡ federat︠s︡ii︠a︡ truda --- Federação Americana de Trabalho --- United States --- Politics and government