Labor and the Cold War: The Legacy of McCarthyism.

A chapter of the book "American Labor and the Cold War: Grassroots Politics and Postwar Political Culture," edited by Robert W. Cherny, William Issel, and Kieran Walsh Taylor is presented. It explores the deleterious impact of the political repression of the Joseph McCarthy period on American labor during the cold war. It considers how McCarthyism divide the labor movement from labor's leaders to its rank-and-file members.