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. 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 Carr{acute}e 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."--
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.
American Labor and the Cold War
American Labor and the Cold War - 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 and the Cold War write by Robert W. Cherny. This book was released on 2004. American Labor and the Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American labor movement seemed poised on the threshold of unparalleled success at the beginning of the post-World War II era. Fourteen million strong in 1946, unions represented thirty five percent of non-agricultural workers. Why then did the gains made between the 1930s and the end of the war produce so few results by the 1960s? This collection addresses the history of labor in the postwar years by exploring the impact of the global contest between the United States and the Soviet Union on American workers and labor unions. The essays focus on the actual behavior of Americans in their diverse workplaces and communities during the Cold War. Where previous scholarship on labor and the Cold War has overemphasized the importance of the Communist Party, the automobile industry, and Hollywood, this book focuses on politically moderate, conservative workers and union leaders, the medium-sized cities that housed the majority of the population, and the Roman Catholic Church. These are all original essays that draw upon extensive archival research and some upon oral history sources.
Labour Under the Marshall Plan
Labour Under the Marshall Plan - 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 Labour Under the Marshall Plan write by Anthony Carew. This book was released on 1987. Labour Under the Marshall Plan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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.
