American Labor’s Global Ambassadors [electronic resource] : The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War /
Waters, Robert Anthony.editor.
Goethem, Geert van.editor.
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.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I The Global Activism of a National Trade Union; One From Dollars to Deeds: Exploring the Sources of Active Interventionism, 1934-1945; Two The American Federation of Labor's Cold War Campaign against "Slave Labor" at the United Nations; Three Marred by Dissimulation: The AFL-CIO, the Women's Committee, and Transnational Labor Relations; Part II The Heavy Hand: Labor's Ambassadors in Europe; Four The AFL and CIO between "Crusade" and Pluralism in Italy, 1944-1963
Five The Influence of the American Federation of Labor on the Force Ouvriè re, 1944-1954Six AFL-CIO Support for Solidarity: Moral, Political, Financial; Part III On A Mission: American Labor's Ambassadors in Latin America and the Caribbean; Seven Reforming Latin American Labor: The AFL-CIO and Latin America's Cold War; Eight The AFL-CIO and ORIT in Latin America's Andean Region, from the 1950s to the 1960s; Nine More Subtle than We Knew: The AFL in the British Caribbean
Ten "Democracy and Freedom" in Brazilian Trade Unionism during the Civil-Military Dictatorship: The Activities of the American Institute for Free Labor DevelopmentEleven Chilean Workers and the US Labor Movement: From Solidarity to Intervention, 1950s-1970s; Part IV A Diplomatic Touch: Labor's Ambassadors in Africa and Asia; Twelve Irving Brown and ICFTU Labor Diplomacy during Algeria's Struggle for Independence, 1954-1962; Thirteen "We Will Follow a Nationalist Policy;  but We Will Never Be Neutral": American Labor and Neutralism in Cold War Africa, 1957-1962
Fourteen "Free Labor versus Slave Labor": Free Trade Unionism and the Challenge of War-Torn AsiaPart V Conclusion; Transnational Labor Politics in the Global Cold War; List of Contributors; Index
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, Modern.
Civilization-History.
World history.
Industrial sociology.
Economic history.
Social history.
Modern History.
Cultural History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Sociology of Work.
Economic History.
Social History.