LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Blue-Collar Worker, Kitchen Debate
10 Dec 2012
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Post-war compromise and prosperity, pt. 3: cold war. Not just about foreign affairs, it was ideological. Cultural thing, both sides claimed to have a better model to make peoples lives better. ^ refer to as kitchen debate becomes very heated communist household vs. american household. Within labour movement, communists became vey prominent. Communists become official enemy during cold war. Are you now or have you ever been a communist . Labour suffered heavily because most energetic and involved leaders are being thrown out of unions. Many unions became snake pits from debate arising form communists being thrown at. When workers or leaders got heated and spoke up, they were accused of being communists. Major fear of being deemed a communist because you could easily lose your jobs from this. Didn"t want to sound radical or like trouble makers. Focus narrows on grieving system, did not want to be seen as communists: proprietary.
