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American labor's global ambassadors :

1137360224

1349471852

9781137360229

9781349471850

b537014

American labor's global ambassadors :

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the international history of the AFL-CIO during the cold war

edited by Geert Van Goethem and Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. ; with foreword by Marcel van der Linden.

New York, NY

Palgrave Macmillan

2013

Foreword; Marcel van der Linden --;Introduction; Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. and Geert van Goethem --;PART I: The Global Activism of a National Trade Union --;1. From Dollars to Deeds: Exploring the sources of Active Interventionism, 1934-1945; Geert van Goethem --;2. The American Federation of Labor's Cold War Campaign against 'Slave Labor' at the United Nations; Quenby Olmsted Hughes --;3. Marred by Dissimulation: The AFL-CIO, the Women's Committee, and Transnational Labor Relations; Yevette Richards --;PART II: Not Very Diplomatic Ambassadors: Working to Defeat Communism in Europe --;4. The AFL and CIO between 'Crusade' and Pluralism in Italy, 1944-1963; Alessandro Brogi --;5. The Influence of the American Federation of Labor on the Force Ouvrïre, 1944-1954; Barrett Dower --;6. AFL-CIO Support for Solidarity: Moral, Political, Financial; Eric Chenoweth --;PART III: Heavy-handed or Subtle? America's Labor Ambassadors in Latin America and the Caribbean --;7. Reforming Latin American Labor: The AFL-CIO and Latin America's Cold War; Dustin Walcher --;8. The AFL-CIO and ORIT in Latin America's Andean Region, 1950s-1960s; Magaly Rodr̕guez Garc̕a --;9. More Subtle than We Knew: The AFL in the British Caribbean; Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. --;10. 'Democracy and Freedom' in Brazilian Trade Unionism during the Civil-Military Dictatorship: The Activities of the American Institute for Free Labor Development; Larissa Rosa Corr̊a --;11. Chilean Workers and the U.S. Labor Movement: From Solidarity to Intervention, 1950s-1970s; Angela Vergara --;PART IV: Behaving like Ambassadors: The AFL-CIO in Africa and Asia --;12. Irving Brown and ICFTU Labor Diplomacy during Algeria's Struggle for Independence, 1954-1962; Mathilde von Bulow --;13. 'We will follow a nationalist policy; but we will never be neutral' ₆ American Labor and Neutralism in Cold War Africa, 1957-1962; John C. Stoner --;14. 'Free Labor Versus Slave Labor': Free Trade Unionism and the Challenge of War-torn Asia; Edmund F. Wehrle, Jr. --;PART V --;Conclusion: Transnational Labor Politics in the Global Cold War; Federico Romero.

After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions from leading historians to explore its successes, challenges, and inevitable compromises as it pursued these initiatives during the Cold War.

AFL-CIO -- History -- 20th century.

Cold War.

World politics -- 1945-1989.

edited by Geert Van Goethem and Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. ; with foreword by Marcel van der Linden.

Geert van Goethem

Robert Anthony Waters

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