Book review: ‘Blue Collar Empire—How Anti-Communism Undermined Workers Everywhere’

Book review: ‘Blue Collar Empire—How Anti-Communism Undermined Workers Everywhere’

Jeff Schuhrke’s Blue Collar Empire reveals a tragic irony of modern labor history: the very anti-communism that was allegedly meant to “protect” workers became a weapon used to divide and weaken them internationally. This isn’t just a story about the Cold War—it’s about how attacking the broad left, specifically the communists, in the labor movement left all workers more vulnerable to the big business attacks, then and now. Cover of ‘Blue Collar…