American labor's global ambassadors: the international history of the AFL CIO during the cold war
Foreword Marcel van der Linden Introduction Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. and Geert van Goethem PART I: The Global Activism of a National Trade Union 1. From Dollars to Deeds: Exploring the sources of Active Interventionism, 1934 1945 Geert van Goethem 2. The American Federation of Labor's Cold War Campaign against 'Slave Labor' at the United Nations Quenby Olmsted Hughes 3. Marred by Dissimulation: The AFL CIO, the Women's Committee, and Transnational Labor Relations Yevette Richards PART II: Not Very Diplomatic Ambassadors: Working to Defeat Communism in Europe 4. The AFL and CIO between 'Crusade' and Pluralism in Italy, 1944 1963 Alessandro Brogi 5. The Influence of the American Federation of Labor on the Force Ouvriere, 1944 1954 Barrett Dower 6. AFL CIO Support for Solidarity: Moral, Political, Financial Eric Chenoweth PART III: Heavy handed or Subtle? America's Labor Ambassadors in Latin America and the Caribbean 7. Reforming Latin American Labor: The AFL CIO and Latin America's Cold War Dustin Walcher 8. The AFL CIO and ORIT in Latin America's Andean Region, 1950s 1960s Magaly Rodriguez Garcia 9. More Subtle than We Knew: The AFL in the British Caribbean Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. 10. 'Democracy and Freedom' in Brazilian Trade Unionism during the Civil Military Dictatorship: The Activities of the American Institute for Free Labor Development Larissa Rosa Correa 11. Chilean Workers and the U.S. Labor Movement: From Solidarity to Intervention, 1950s 1970s Angela Vergara PART IV: Behaving like Ambassadors: The AFL CIO in Africa and Asia 12. Irving Brown and ICFTU Labor Diplomacy during Algeria's Struggle for Independence, 1954 1962 Mathilde von Bulow 13. '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 14. 'Free Labor Versus Slave Labor' Free Trade Unionism and the Challenge of War torn Asia Edmund F. Wehrle, Jr. PART V Conclusion: Transnational Labor Politics in the Global Cold War Federico Romero