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 Ouvrière, 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 Rodríguez García 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 Corrêa 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 Bülow 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