Commonsense anticommunism : labor and civil liberties between the world wars / Jennifer Luff.

Author/creator Luff, Jennifer
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Descriptionxii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
American Federation of Labor.
Communism--United States.
Anti-communist movements--United States.
United States--Politics and government. --1901-1953.

Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The AFL and the origins of modern civil liberties -- Labor and liberties : the American Federation of Labor, 1886-1915 -- Spycraft and statecraft : surveillance before the Great War -- Sedition and civil liberties : the AFL during World War I -- Becoming commonsense anticommunists -- Communism, civil liberties, and the red scare -- Secrecy and surveillance : anticommunism and the Bureau of Investigation -- Surveillance scandals and the downfall of the Bureau of Investigation -- From commonsense anticommunism to red-baiting -- Commonsense anticommunism and civil liberties -- Labor's counter-reformation : the American Federation of Labor and the end of reform -- Anticommunism, the Dies committee, and espionage -- Labor's red scare : the AFL and the architecture of anticommunism, 1939-1941 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [261]-280) and index.
LCCN 2011044464
ISBN9780807835418 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807835412 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HX89 .L84 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold