Blue-Collar Empire

The Untold Story of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Blue-Collar Empire tells the shocking story of the AFL-CIO's global anticommunist crusade-and its devastating consequences for workers around the world.Unions have the power not only to secure pay raises and employee benefits but to bring economies to a screeching halt and overthrow governments. Recognizing this, in the late twentieth century, the US government sought to control labor movements abroad as part of the Cold War contest for worldwide supremacy. In this work, Washington found an enthusiastic partner in the AFL-CIO's anticommunist officials, who, in a shocking betrayal, for decades expended their energies to block revolutionary ideologies and militant class consciousness from taking hold in the workers' movements of Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-24
Mått140 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt382 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781839769054

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AbbreviationsIntroductionPart IFREE TRADE UNIONISM (1945-1960)1 Th e Free Trade Union Committee2 Good Neighbors3 A Larger Pie4 Joining the CIA5 Inter-Americanism6 MergerPart IIFREE LABOR DEVELOPMENT (1960-1973)7 Comradely Brainwashing8 Intervenors9 Mama Maida10 Vietnam11 ExposedPart IIIFREE MARKET REVOLUTION (1973-1995)12 Crisis13 New Blood14 Endowing Democracy15 Civil War16 Hollow VictoryConclusionAcknowledgementsNotesIndex

In this comprehensive and consequential study, Jeff Schuhrke sheds light on the often nefarious international agenda of the AFL-CIO. During the Cold War, as Schuhrke documents, the top leaders of the U.S. labor establishment, driven by fervent and indiscriminate anti-communism, helped sabotage nascent union movements in countries across the globe. In doing so, the AFL-CIO undermined cross-border working class unity and bolstered multinational corporate power. Blue-Collar Empire thus offers much vital information and insight, both for scholars seeking to understand the rise and decline of the 20th century labor movement, and for union activists working today to build (or re-build) international networks of solidarity.