Labor and the cold war: The legacy of McCarthyism

American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 7-24

  Schrecker, Ellen ^a  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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