American Labor's Global Ambassadors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Labor's Global Ambassadors write by Robert Anthony Waters Jr.. This book was released on 2013-11-19. American Labor's Global Ambassadors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
American Labor's Global Ambassadors
American Labor's Global Ambassadors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Labor's Global Ambassadors write by Robert Anthony Waters Jr.. This book was released on 2013-11-19. American Labor's Global Ambassadors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Presidents and Peons
Presidents and Peons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Presidents and Peons write by Serafino Romualdi. This book was released on 1967. Presidents and Peons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American Labour’s Cold War Abroad
American Labour’s Cold War Abroad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Labour’s Cold War Abroad write by Anthony Carew. This book was released on 2018-09-21. American Labour’s Cold War Abroad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade unions were a substantial force in both American and European politics, the fiercely anti-communist American Federation of Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL–CIO) set a strong example for labour organizations overseas. The AFL–CIO cooperated closely with the US government on foreign policy and enjoyed an intimate, if sometimes strained, relationship with the CIA. The activities of its international staff, and especially the often secretive work of Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown—whose biographies read like characters plucked from a Le Carré novel—exerted a major influence on relationships in Europe and beyond. Having mastered the enormous volume of correspondence and other records generated by staffers Lovestone and Brown, Carew presents a lively and clear account of what has largely been an unknown dimension of the Cold War. In impressive detail, Carew maps the international programs of the AFL–CIO during the Cold War and its relations with labour organizations abroad, in addition to providing a summary of the labour situation of a dozen or more countries including Finland, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Greece, and India. American Labour’s Cold War Abroad reveals how the Cold War compelled trade unionists to reflect on the role of unions in a free society. Yet there was to be no meeting of minds on this, and at the end of the 1960s the AFL–CIO broke with the mainstream of the international labour movement to pursue its own crusade against communism.
Ambassadors of the Working Class
Ambassadors of the Working Class - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ambassadors of the Working Class write by Ernesto Semán. This book was released on 2017-08-17. Ambassadors of the Working Class available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1946 Juan Perón launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attachés at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country in history. A meatpacking union leader taught striking workers in Chicago about rising salaries under Perón. A railroad motorist joined the revolution in Bolivia. A baker showed Soviet workers the daily caloric intake of their Argentine counterparts. As Ambassadors of the Working Class shows, the attachés' struggle against US diplomats in Latin America turned the region into a Cold War battlefield for the hearts of the working classes. In this context, Ernesto Semán reveals, for example, how the attachés' brand of transnational populism offered Fidel Castro and Che Guevara their last chance at mass politics before their embrace of revolutionary violence. Fiercely opposed by Washington, the attachés’ project foundered, but not before US policymakers used their opposition to Peronism to rehearse arguments against the New Deal's legacies.
