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Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom (2017)
Journal Article
Luff, J. (2017). Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom. American Historical Review, 122(3), 727-757. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/122.3.727

This article reveals a startling episode unknown to contemporaries and historians: Britain’s secret interwar bar on Communists in government service. Between 1927 and 1946, thousands of unwitting industrial workers suspected of Communist sympathies w... Read More about Covert and Overt Operations: Interwar Political Policing in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Labor Anticommunism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, 1920–49 (2016)
Journal Article
Luff, J. (2018). Labor Anticommunism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, 1920–49. Journal of Contemporary History, 53(1), 109-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009416658701

Why did domestic anticommunism convulse the United States of America during the early Cold War but barely ripple in the United Kingdom? Contemporaries and historians have puzzled over the dramatic difference in domestic politics between the USA and t... Read More about Labor Anticommunism in the United States of America and the United Kingdom, 1920–49.

What Works for Workers? Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers. (2014)
Book
Luce, S., Luff, J., McCartin, J., & Milkman, R. (Eds.). (2014). What Works for Workers? Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers. Russell Sage Press

The majority of new jobs created in the United States today are low-wage jobs, and a fourth of the labor force earns no more than poverty-level wages. Policymakers and citizens alike agree that declining real wages and constrained spending among such... Read More about What Works for Workers? Public Policies and Innovative Strategies for Low-Wage Workers..