Blue-Collar Empire is a history of Communism beginning with Plato's "Republic," up through the French Revolution, and so forth. This book is informative and accurate, but the author is apparently a neo-Marxist, so each reader has to wade through his endless string of favorable adjectives. Communism is a horrible idea that has failed everywhere that it has been tried and has cost perhaps 100 million innocent lives. You should purchase and read this book, but you must ignore the author's left-leaning, slanted language.

A thorough study into the use of the American intelligence apparatus and the American union system to combat communism post-WW2 both domestically and abroad.

Great assessment of the various structural forces that worked to discredit communism as a legitimate expression of Labor's grievances with the capitalist system. A fascinating study of worker's desire for economic security and how ideologies that serve the oppressed can be turned against their beneficiaries. This text does much to dispel the commonly held belief that unions are all ideologically aligned.