Retrospective history of the U.S. working class from
World War II through the Kirkland era
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History of the U.S. working class
- Wartime AFL-CIO Corporatism
- Chris Lowe, on the AfrLabor list. 16 September, 1995.
AFL-CIO and World War II era labor-management cooperation.
- The Story of The Searchlight, the
voice of the Chevrolet worker
- By Ronda Hauben. 1996. The rank-and-file newspaper of UAW
Local 659, Flint MI, from 1942 into the '50s.
- Ben Rathbun, The Point Man: Irving Brown
and the deadly post-1945 struggle for Europe and Africa
- Review by Lenni Brenner, 17 June 1999. A right wing defense,
associated with Albert Shanker, of Lane Kirkland and Irving
Brown, who played a central role in the AFL's CIA-funded
post-WWII fight against French trade unions.
- A new biography of Walter Reuther of the UAW by
Nelson Lichtenstein
- Press Release. 26 September, 1995. Walter Reuther was
president of the UAW 1946-1970.
- Review of Stanley Aronowitz & William DiFazio,
The Futureless Job
- By D. Shniad, June, 1995.
- Legacy of Reaction: Kirkland & and Cold
War
- By Milt Neidenberg, Workers World, 26 August 1999.
- Will the AFL-CIO's New Leaders Change its Old
Cold War Policies?
- By David Bacon, 29 October 1995. The AFL-CIO convention in
1995 that deposed Lane Kirckland.
- Labor Day 1995: Turning potential into workers'
power
- By Shannon Spence, in Workers World, 6 September,
1995. Argues that 1995 marks the opening of a new era
for labor.
- The Edifice Complex: Rebuilding the American
Labor Movement to Face the Global Economy
- Publication announcement by the Labor Research Association.
19 October, 1995.
- The Political Consequences of Declining
Unionism
- By Oren M. Levin-Waldman, in Cleveland Plain Dealer,
1 September, 1997. Exclusive focus on economic issues here
criticized because labor needs to develop political power
to shape the future in accord with its interest.
- Lane Kirkland, Former A.F.L-C.I.O. Head, Dies
at 77
- By William Serrin, New York Times, 15 August
1999.
- Lane Kirkland Eulogy
- By Ellen Starbird, 15 August 1999. Lane Kirkland as a
tragic figure.
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