The UAW and the struggle to organize aircraft, 1937–1942
This article examines the United Automobile Workers’ Union (UAW) efforts to organize the aircraft industry, 1937–1942. It argues that the North American Aviation Strike in Inglewood, California in 1941 played a pivotal role in determining the union's fate in the industry. Following the controversial strike national UAW leaders seized control over the Aviation Organizing Campaign, placing the drive clearly in the hands of the union's auto interests. The move removed local leaders, and alienated a workforce that long cast a suspicious eye on the UAW. Ultimately, as events at Curtiss-Wright in Buffalo, New York show, the decision greatly hindered the UAW efforts in aircraft and opened the door to fierce competition from the International Association of Machinists.
United States Communist History Bibliography, 2007–2008
The subject of this bibliography is the scholarly literature of United States communism. In previous years, this bibliography separately covered the literature of communism throughout the rest of the world. However, this coverage has been discontinued, thus aligning the bibliography with the core scope of American Communist History while reducing its size to a more easily publishable length. Other considerations included the amount of time the compiler could devote to this project, and because it was not possible to provide the same depth of coverage for non-U.S. communism. Informational annotations are provided where a work’s title does not convey essential information, e.g. chronological or geographical scope, personal or corporate names, subject or relevance.
Political Developments: Some Conclusions and an Interpretation
When the political decisions and achievements of the post-Khrushchev Soviet leadership are considered as a whole, it is not immediately obvious that there is any pattern to them. It may, nevertheless, be useful to begin by devoting attention to some of the major policy tendencies and outcomes of the past decade, most of which have already been considered in greater detail by other contributors, before going on to enquire if any broad strategy underlying them may be discerned and to attempt to place the various changes in a broader political context.