The Politics of Glamour: Ideology and Democracy in the Screen Actors Guild

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This "case study of ideology and democracy" examines a unique union whose members are in a precarious profession where job stability and work conditions vary greatly. Prindle describes the "permanent internal strife" and "consistent split" in the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) between its conservative and progressive factions, which have fundamentally different beliefs and values about the role of unions as well as critical disagreements over guild policies. The book examines the impact and legacy--both personal and professional--of the blacklist and graylist of the 1940s and 1950s, concluding that the much publicized actions of SAG in the 1980s saw the legacy of militant anti-Communism become anti-anti-Communism. For students of contemporary American unionism.- John R. Sillito, Weber State Coll. Lib., Ogden, Ut .Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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