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Title:

American labor's global ambassadors : the international history of the AFL-CIO during the cold war / edited by Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. and Geert Van Goethem ; with foreword by Marcel van der Linden.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

x, 302 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

AFL-CIO--History--20th century.
Cold War.
World politics--1945-1989.
International labor activities--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Goethem, Geert van
Waters, Robert Anthony, 1960-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Federico Romero. Transnational labor politics in the global Cold War / Geert Van Goethem -- The American Federation of Labor's Cold War campaign against "slave labor" at the United Nations / Quenby Olmsted Hughes -- Marred by dissimulation : the AFL-CIO, the Women's Committee, and transnational labor relations / Yevette Richards -- The AFL and CIO between "crusade" and pluralism in Italy, 1944-1963 / Alessandro Brogi -- The influence of the American Federation of Labor on the Force Ouvri©·re, 1944-1954 / Barrett Dower -- AFL-CIO support for solidarity : moral, political, financial / Eric Chenoweth -- Reforming Latin American labor : the AFL-CIO and Latin America's Cold War / Dustin Walcher -- The AFL-CIO and ORIT in Latin America's Andean region, from the 1950s to the 1960s / Magaly Rodr©Ưguez Garc©Ưa -- More subtle than we knew : the AFL in the British Caribbean / Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. -- "Democracy and freedom" in Brazilian trade unionism during the civil-military dictatorship : the activities of the American Institute for Free Labor Development / Larissa Rosa Corr©®a -- Chilean workers and the US labor movement : from solidarity to intervention : 1950s-1970s / Angela Vergara -- Irving Brown and ICFTU labor diplomacy during Algeria's struggle for independence, 1954-1962 / Mathilde von B©ơlow -- "We will follow a nationalist policy; but we will never be neutral" : American labor and neutralism in Cold War Africa, 1957-1962 / John C. Stoner -- "Free labor versus slave labor" : free trade unionism and the challenge of war-torn Asia / Edmund F. Wehrle, Jr. -- Transnational labor politics in the global Cold War / Federico Romero.

ISBN:

1137360216 (alk. paper)
9781137360212 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)852224873

LCCN:

2013019052

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)