question re:post-war shift from economic rights to pseudo

[Michael Hoover]

> particularly interested
> in how much of the mainstream rhetoric around economic rights clear 'til
> 1947 seems to be erased gradually and with enoromous effort in the nascent
> Cold War conjuncture around 1945-mid-Fifties. Of course, this is a major
> apparatus that is mobilized to terrorize lefties, linking economic rights
> discourse to communism, espionage (through surveillance, deportation,
> censorship, purges), and so on. At the same time, there seems to have
> beena post-war advertising blitz and much work culturally to divert
> attention to the society of consumption and the liberal economic reduction
> of citizenship to shopping. In a way similar to the economic rights that
> multinationals are claiming today, corporations seemed to claim after
> the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.
> 	Do any of you have suggestions on good work
> Jayson Harsin

Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf, _Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault
on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-1960_
Michael Hoover