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BOOK REVIEW

Shelton Stromquist (ed.), Labor's Cold War: Local Politics in a Global Context, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2008. pp. ix + 304. US $25 paper.

Joining a similar volume published in 2004, Labor's Cold War seeks to reorient the scholarly focus of domestic Cold War politics to the local level. In doing so, it aims to highlight the myriad ways in which Americans – and labour activists in particular – experienced and shaped the Cold War at home as well as to uncover 'the persistence of a progressive, pragmatic politics in the face of polarizing national and international pressures' (p. 2). The essays that appear in this volume grew out of a 2000 conference on labour and the Cold War sponsored by the Center for Recent United States History at the University of Iowa. Taken as a whole, as Shelton Stromquist suggests in the book's introduction, they depict a multifaceted portrait of domestic anticommunism while complicating 'the traditional "rise and fall" narrative of left-wing politics in the decade following the Second World War' (p. 4).

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