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Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 : Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists - Hardcover

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As World War II wound down in 1945 and the cold war heated up, the skilled trades that made up the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) began a tumultuous strike at the major Hollywood studios. This turmoil escalated further when the studios retaliated by locking out CSU in 1946. This labor unrest unleashed a fury of Red-baiting that allowed studio moguls to crush the union and seize control of...

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Gerald Horne is the author of Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s. He is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Walt Disney was famous in Hollywood for creating Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Communists: "Mr. Disney created more communists [than any other studio] with his substandard wage scales and the way he handled his people," claimed the leader of the Conference of Studio Unions, Herb Sorrell. But Disney's policies--which Horne contends were racist, anti-Semitic and sexist as well--were not unique in Hollywood. Tensions between workers and management...

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  • PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 029273137X
  • ISBN 13 9780292731370
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages335
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Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2001
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