American Labor’s Global Ambassadors
ISBN: 9781137360229
Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Palgrave Macmillan US
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited
Subjects: Palgrave History Collection;

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.


Quenby Olmsted Hughes, Rhode Island College, USAYevette Richards, George Mason University, USAAlessandro Brogi, University of Arkansas, USABarrett Dower, independent scholar and retired president of the Paris-American Chamber of CommerceDustin Walcher, Southern Oregon University, USALarissa Rosa Correa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, BrazilAngela Vergara, California State University at Los Angeles, USAJohn C. Stoner, University of Pittsburgh, USAMathilde von Bülow, University of Nottingham, UKEdmund F. Wehrle, Eastern Illinois University, USAEric Chenoweth, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, USAMarcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, The NetherlandsMagaly Rodríguez García, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Federico Romero, European University Institute, Italy
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