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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-280) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2011044464 |
ISBN | 9780807835418 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0807835412 (cloth : alk. paper) |