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Workers' Struggles, Past and Present : A "Radical America" Reader /

Table of Contents: “…The demand for black labor: historical notes on the political economy of racism -- Four decades of change: black workers in Southern Textiles, 1941-1981 -- The stop watch and the wooden shoe: scientific management and the industrial workers of the world -- "The clerking sisterhood": rationalization and the work culture of saleswomen in American department stores, 1890-1960 -- Sexual harassment at the workplace: historical notes -- "Union fever"; organizing among clerical workers, 1900-1930 -- Organizing the unemployed: the early years of the Great Depression, 1929-1933 -- The possibility of radicalism in the early 1930s: the case of steel -- A. …”
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Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology / by Price, David H., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes.…”
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