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

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
From Dollars to Deeds: Exploring the Sources of Active Interventionism, 1934–1945....Pages 9-22
The American Federation of Labor’s Cold War Campaign against “Slave Labor” at the United Nations....Pages 23-38
Marred by Dissimulation: The AFL-CIO, the Women’s Committee, and Transnational Labor Relations....Pages 39-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
The AFL and CIO between “Crusade” and Pluralism in Italy, 1944–1963....Pages 59-83
The Influence of the American Federation of Labor on the Force Ouvrière, 1944–1954....Pages 85-101
AFL-CIO Support for Solidarity: Moral, Political, Financial....Pages 103-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Reforming Latin American Labor: The AFL-CIO and Latin America’s Cold War....Pages 123-135
The AFL-CIO and ORIT in Latin America’s Andean Region, from the 1950s to the 1960s....Pages 137-163
More Subtle than We Knew: The AFL in the British Caribbean....Pages 165-175
“Democracy and Freedom” in Brazilian Trade Unionism during the Civil-Military Dictatorship: The Activities of the American Institute for Free Labor Development....Pages 177-199
Chilean Workers and the US Labor Movement: From Solidarity to Intervention, 1950s–1970s....Pages 201-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Irving Brown and ICFTU Labor Diplomacy during Algeria’s Struggle for Independence, 1954–1962....Pages 217-236
“We Will Follow a Nationalist Policy; but We Will Never Be Neutral”: American Labor and Neutralism in Cold War Africa, 1957–1962....Pages 237-251
“Free Labor versus Slave Labor”: Free Trade Unionism and the Challenge of War-Torn Asia....Pages 253-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Transnational Labor Politics in the Global Cold War....Pages 269-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-302