Goethem, Geert
American Labor’s Global Ambassadors
1. Introduction
Robert Anthony Waters, Geert Goethem
Part I. The Global Activism of a National Trade Union
2. From Dollars to Deeds: Exploring the Sources of Active Interventionism, 1934–1945
Geert Goethem
3. The American Federation of Labor’s Cold War Campaign against “Slave Labor” at the United Nations
Quenby Olmsted Hughes
4. Marred by Dissimulation: The AFL-CIO, the Women’s Committee, and Transnational Labor Relations
Yevette Richards
Part II. The Heavy Hand: Labor’s Ambassadors in Europe
5. The AFL and CIO between “Crusade” and Pluralism in Italy, 1944–1963
Alessandro Brogi
6. The Influence of the American Federation of Labor on the
Barrett Dower
7. AFL-CIO Support for Solidarity: Moral, Political, Financial
Eric Chenoweth
Part III. On a Mission: American Labor’s Ambassadors in Latin America and the Caribbean
8. Reforming Latin American Labor: The AFL-CIO and Latin America’s Cold War
Dustin Walcher
9. The AFL-CIO and ORIT in Latin America’s Andean Region, from the 1950s to the 1960s
Magaly Rodríguez García
10. More Subtle than We Knew: The AFL in the British Caribbean
Robert Anthony Waters
11. “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
12. Chilean Workers and the US Labor Movement: From Solidarity to Intervention, 1950s–1970s
Angela Vergara
Part IV. A Diplomatic Touch: Labor’s Ambassadors in Africa and Asia
13. Irving Brown and ICFTU Labor Diplomacy during Algeria’s Struggle for Independence, 1954–1962
Mathilde Bülow
14. “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
15. “Free Labor versus Slave Labor”: Free Trade Unionism and the Challenge of War-Torn Asia
Edmund F. Wehrle
Part V. Conclusion
16. Transnational Labor Politics in the Global Cold War
Federico Romero
Nyckelord: History, Modern History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Sociology of Work, Economic History, Social History
- Utgivare
- Goethem, Geert
- Waters, Robert Anthony
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 313 sidor
- Kategori
- Historia
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137360229
- Tryckt ISBN
- 978-1-349-47185-0