American Labor's Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War

Robert Anthony Waters Jr. · Geert Van Goethem

ліс 2013 · Springer

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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.

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Quenby Olmsted Hughes, Rhode Island College, USA Yevette Richards, George Mason University, USA Alessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas, USA Barrett Dower, independent scholar and retired president of the Paris-American Chamber of Commerce Dustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University, USA Larissa Rosa Correa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Angela Vergara, California State University at Los Angeles, USA John C. Stoner, University of Pittsburgh, USA Mathilde von Bülow, University of Nottingham, UK Edmund F. Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University, USA Eric Chenoweth, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, USA Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands Magaly Rodríguez García, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Federico Romero, European University Institute, Italy