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![President John F. Kennedy is shown a model for AIFLD’s Mexico City housing project in November 1963. Upon its completion the following year, the project was named the John F. Kennedy Memorial Housing Project in honor of the assassinated president. From left: AIFLD Social Projects director William Doherty Jr.; George Meany; Kennedy; and project supervisor Andrew Klay.](https://workdaymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/JFK_AIFLD-scaled-e1724708924212-771x420.jpg)
Labor’s Reckoning: What We Can Learn From the Cold War History of the AFL-CIO
An interview with the author of ‘Blue-Collar Empire,’ a forthcoming book that uncovers the AFL-CIO’s Cold War-era involvement in undermining left-wing and anti-imperialist labor movements abroad.