International labor organizations and organized labor in Latin America and the Caribbean
Subtitle: a history
By: Robert J. Alexander ; with the collaboration of Eldon M. Parker.
Contributors: Parker, Eldon M.
Publisher: Praeger/ABC-CLIO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780275977399; 9780313381836
Subjects: Labor unions -- Latin America; Labor unions -- Caribbean Area; Labor movement -- Latin America; Labor movement -- Caribbean Area
Description: <b>The first scholarly work to focus exclusively on the roles of pan-regional and worldwide labor organizations in the labor movements across the nations of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.</b>  With a career that covers over a half century, Robert J. Alexander is perhaps our foremost authority on Latin American history and politics. In <i>International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean: A History</i>, Alexander explores one of the most fascinating and often overlooked aspects of the Latin American labor scene he has so meticulously chronicled: the relationships between labor unions within specific nations, region wide organizations, and organized labor around the world.  Alexander has written many of the cornerstone works on labor movements within the nations of Latin America, and this is his first volume to focus on the impact of international unions on Latin American labor issues. Coverage includes the AFL-offshoot Pan American Federation of Labor and the CIA-backed AIFLD; the role of the Russian Union, Profintern; European-based unions like the anti-Communist/anti-Fascist Postal Telegraph and Telephone International; and intraregional organizations like the Confederacion de Trabajadores de America Latina (CTAL)-the first attempt to form a multinational labor organization exclusively for the region.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.