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American labor's global ambassadors : the international history of the AFL-CIO during the cold war

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.
Publication: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description

x, 302 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. and Geert Van Goethem -- From dollars to deeds : exploring the sources of active interventionism, 1934-1945 / 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 Ouvrière, 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 Rodríguez García -- 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 Corrêa -- 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 Bülow -- "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.

Call Number

JBE 16-186

ISBN

9781137360212
1137360216
9781137360229 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013019052

OCLC

852224873

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

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Goethem, Geert van.

Waters, Robert Anthony, 1960-

Research Call Number

JBE 16-186

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