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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Global Activism of a National Trade Union
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The Heavy Hand: Labor’s Ambassadors in Europe
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On a Mission: American Labor’s Ambassadors in Latin America and the Caribbean
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A Diplomatic Touch: Labor’s Ambassadors in Africa and Asia
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"The role of labor unions in the formulation of U.S. foreign relations is an important topic that has recently gained the attention of scholars seeking to record a comprehensive understanding of international relations history. Based on copious research, these essays expertly probe the influence of the AFL-CIO in shaping U.S. foreign policy at a critical time in U.S. and world history. The scholarship presented here deserves the attention of historians of U.S. diplomacy and organized labor, as well as of the several regions around the world where labor exerted influence." - Peter Hahn, Professor of History, The Ohio State University, USA, and author of Missions Accomplished?: The United States and Iraq since World War I (2011)
"American Labor's Global Ambassadors is the book that we have been waiting for. Cold War studies have been well established over the last decades, studies of the global Cold War have fared well, but the global labor Cold War - engulfing Asia, Africa, and Latin America aside from Europe - has been neglected. The finely crafted articles in this book, written by a cohort of scholars as well as activists, and based on previously unused labor archives, fill this lacuna." - Daniela Spenser, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico
"Interestingly enough, the American trade union movement played a major worldwide role during the Cold War. Sometimes it behaved like an ambassador; at other times its behavior was not very diplomatic, somewhere between heavy-handed and subtle. This thorough study covers all continents and is innovative, reliable, and a sine qua non for understanding Cold War politics and international trade unionism." - Bob Reinalda, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: American Labor's Global Ambassadors
Book Subtitle: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War
Editors: Robert Anthony Waters, Geert Goethem
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137360229
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-36021-2Published: 19 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47185-0Published: 28 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-36022-9Published: 19 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 302
Topics: Modern History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Sociology of Work, Economic History, Social History