American Labor And The Cold War

Author : Robert W. Cherny,William Issel,Kieran Walsh Taylor
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813534038

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American Labor and the Cold War by Robert W. Cherny,William Issel,Kieran Walsh Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Anthony Waters Jr.,Geert Van Goethem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137360229

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American Labor's Global Ambassadors by Robert Anthony Waters Jr.,Geert Van Goethem Pdf

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.

Author : Shelton Stromquist
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anti-communist movements
ISBN : 9780252074691

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Labor's Cold War by Shelton Stromquist Pdf

How the Cold War affected local-level union politics

Author : Anthony Carew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 177199214X

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American Labour's Cold War Abroad by Anthony Carew Pdf

"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."--

Author : Jeffrey W. Coker
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780826263575

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Confronting American Labor by Jeffrey W. Coker Pdf

Confronting American Labor traces the development of the American left, from the Depression era through the Cold War, by examining four representative intellectuals who grappled with the difficult question of labor's role in society. Since the time of Marx, leftists have raised over and over the question of how an intelligentsia might participate in a movement carried out by the working class. Their modus operandi was to champion those who suffered injustice at the hands of the powerful. From the late nineteenth through much of the twentieth century, this meant a focus on the industrial worker. The Great Depression was a time of remarkable consensus among leftist intellectuals, who often interpreted worker militancy as the harbinger of impending radical change. While most Americans waited out the crisis, listening to the assurances of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Marxian left was convinced that the crisis was systemic. Intellectuals who came of age during the Depression developed the view that the labor movement in America was to be the organizing base for a proletariat. Moreover, many came from working-class backgrounds that contributed to their support of labor.

Author : Anthony Carew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1771992123

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American Labour's Cold War Abroad by Anthony Carew Pdf

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.

Author : Ronald L. Filippelli
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804715793

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American Labor and Postwar Italy, 1943-1953 by Ronald L. Filippelli Pdf

American, Labor, Postwar Italy, migration.

Author : Denis MacShane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Cold War
ISBN : UCSC:32106010283866

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International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War by Denis MacShane Pdf

This is the first major study of the role of industrial unions in the launch of the Cold War in the 1940s. Using unpublished archival material from Europe and America, Denis MacShane challenges existing interpretations of international labour's role in the Cold War, arguing that European traditions and political differences were more important than American interventions in determining labour's attitudes to international problems after 1945. Existing interpretations which focus on national confederations such as the TUC in Britain or the AFL in America treat the question of labour and the Cold War as a political and diplomatic quarrel. Dr. MacShane revises the view that the TUC shaped post-war trade union structures in West Germany, or that any TUC blueprint existed for German industrial trade unionism after 1945. In particular he examines trade unions in the engineering, steel, car, and metal industries who were at the peak of their power, size, and influence in 1945. Their productionist philosophy, which was powerfully tapped by the Marshall Plan, is examined to show why Leninist and Stalinist forms of trade union organization were rejected after 1945. This book blends archival research, contemporary accounts, and interviews from Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Switzerland to present a fascinating narrative of labour internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as a challenging thesis which will alter existing historical perceptions of the role of labour in the politically-charged years between 1945 and 1948 when the Cold War got under way.

Author : Ronald L. Filippelli,Mark McColloch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0791421813

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Cold War in the Working Class by Ronald L. Filippelli,Mark McColloch Pdf

This book tells the story of the rise and decline of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) from 1933 to 1990. Once the third-largest industrial union in the United States, the UE was the most powerful left-wing institution in U.S. history and arguably the most significant victim of the anti-communist purges that marked post-World War II America. This is an institutional study of the formation of the UE and the struggle for its control by left-wing and right-wing factions. Unlike most books on unions during the Cold War, this study carries the story up to the present, showing the long-term effects of the ideological battles.

Author : Anthony Carew
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771992114

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American Labour’s Cold War Abroad by Anthony Carew Pdf

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.

Author : Ann Fagan Ginger,David Christiano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005396150

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The Cold War Against Labor by Ann Fagan Ginger,David Christiano Pdf

Author : Stephen Burwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023120202

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American Labour, France, and the Politics of Intervention, 1945-1952 by Stephen Burwood Pdf

Studies how the two dominant U.S. labor centers between 1945 and 1952--the American Federation of Labor, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations--developed their policies and practices toward workers overseas independent of direct influence by the U.S. government. Argues that both the CIO and the AFL urged French workers and their unions to reject Communism in favor of cooperation with employers and the state in order to increase productivity, raise wages, stimulate consumption, and generate a more broadly based prosperity in France. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : George Lipsitz
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002218520

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Class and Culture in Cold War America by George Lipsitz Pdf

Author : Larissa Rosa Corrêa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732917

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Anti-Communist Solidarity by Larissa Rosa Corrêa Pdf

Since the 1960s, many influential Latin Americans, such as the leaders of student movements and unions, and political authorities, participated in exchange programs with the United States to learn about the American way of life. In Brazil, during the international context of the Cold War, when Brazil was governed by a military dictatorship ruled by generals who alternated in power, hundreds of union members were sent to the United States to take union education courses. Did they come back “Americanized” and able to introduce American trade unionism in Brazil? That is the question this book seeks to answer. It is a subject that is as yet little explored in the history of Latin American labor and international relations: the influence of foreign union organizations on national union politics and movements. Despite the US’s investment in advertising, courses, films and trips offered to Brazilian union members, most of them were not convinced by the American ideas on how to organize an “authentic” union movement – or, at least, not committed to applying what they learned in the States.

Author : Henry Agard Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Labor unions
ISBN : OCLC:35282894

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The Cold War on American Labor by Henry Agard Wallace Pdf