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Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 : Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists by Gerald Horne
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Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 : Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists Gerald Horne
Language: English
Page: 335
Format: pdf
ISBN: 029273137X, 9780292796409
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From Publishers Weekly
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 had long roots: attempts at unionization began as early as 1918 and had ended up in a union lockout in 1921. In 1927, the industry attempted to sidestep the union's power by forming the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which was designed to give the appearance of a surrogate union. In the 1930s, attempts at organizing studio workers by the CSU or other unions were labeled "red." In this maelstrom of political, social and legal bitterness, noted historian Horne (Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising of the 1960s) focuses on the great postwar CSU strike of 1945, which after a studio lockout escalated into a full fledged Cold War culture war, with rabid red-baiting, anti-Semitism and, eventually, violence between striking union workers and scabs, and extensive police brutality. Crafting a taut narrative in elegant prose, Horne is sympathetic with the union's struggles, though his historical overview and blow-by-blow retelling of the strike and lockout never feels biased. Relying on a wealth of primary documents and with an eye for salient details, Horne has unearthed a vitally important and mostly forgotten aspect of Hollywood and labor history.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Review
This book is destined to be a bombshell in the field and perhaps far beyond the field. Paul Buhle, coauthor of Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist - "As Hollywood approaches deadline time on the strike front, a book has been published about the extraordinary history of the film world and the often incestuous relationship between studios, unions, and mobsters. It spotlights bloody union battles of the past, when pickets set cars on fire and 'reds' were seen under every studio bed. The strikes in the film industry of the 1940s had a resonance that echoes today. 'At stake was nothing less than control over an industry that was essential in forging people's consciousness,' writes Gerald Horne in Class Struggle in Hollywood 1930-1950."--The Observer 29 April 2001
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