Transnationalism Meets Empire: The AFL-CIO, Development, and the Private Origins of Kennedy’s Latin American Labor Program*

Field, Thomas C.

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“…13 Thomson and Larson's book was the first on the former, while there have been three books on the latter (for an early account, see Radosh, 1969;subsequently, see Sims, 1992 andScipes, 2010a). Additionally, there's been at least one Ph.D. dissertation on the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center , another on the ramifications of resistance to the AFL-CIO's foreign operations (Collombat, 2011), and a growing number of articles that have examined these issues in regard to the AFL-CIO (see, for example, Cox and Bass, 2012;Field, Jr., 2018;Schuhrke, 2019). There is another Ph.D. dissertation that focuses on the foreign activities of the Canadian Labour Congress (Nastovski, 2016b).…”

Section: Writings On Globalizationmentioning

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Innovations in Labor Studies - Incorporating Global Perspectives: From Exhortation to Making It Real

Scipes

2020

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Ever since the mid-1840s, there has been an exhortation for workers of the world to unite globally. With the exception of a three-year period between 1946 and 1949-with the founding and development of the World Federation of Trade Unions immediately after the end of World War II-this has been generally a call limited to rhetoric only. The growing understanding of a globalizing world today, however-affecting the world of work, workers and their organizations-suggests it time for workers to try to make it real. This paper examines two issues pertinent to this new understanding. First, we've got to come to terms with "globalization" and its complexity. And second, we need to recognize that there has been an explosion of globally-aware writings on labor that have emerged since the late 1970s.

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Section: Writings On Globalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovations in Labor Studies - Incorporating Global Perspectives: From Exhortation to Making It Real

Scipes

2020

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Union Busting as Development: Transnationalism, Empire and Kennedy's Secret Labour Programme for Bolivia

Field

2019

J. Lat. Am. Stud.

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Drawing on archives from the US labour movement, personal papers of transnational labour organisers, Bolivian oral histories and press reports, and government records from four countries, this article explores a web of Cold War relationships forged between Bolivian workers and US government and labour officials. Uncovering a panoply of parallel and sometimes conflicting state-supported trade union development programmes, the article reveals governments’ inability to fully control the exuberance of ideologically-motivated labour activists. Rather than succeed in shoring up a civilian government as intended, US President John F. Kennedy's union-busting programme aggravated fissures in Bolivia's non-Communist Left, ultimately frustrating its attempt to steer a non-aligned posture in Latin America's Cold War. Employing transnational methods to bridge gaps between labour, development and diplomatic history, this article points toward a new imperial studies approach to the multi-sited conflicts that shaped the post-war trajectory of labour movements in Bolivia and throughout the Third World.

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Reflecting on the ‘cultural turn’: new directions in the study of Anglo-American relations and the special relationship

Hendershot

2020

J Transatl Stud

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Transnationalism Meets Empire: The AFL-CIO, Development, and the Private Origins of Kennedy’s Latin American Labor Program*

Cited by 5 publications

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Innovations in Labor Studies - Incorporating Global Perspectives: From Exhortation to Making It Real

Innovations in Labor Studies - Incorporating Global Perspectives: From Exhortation to Making It Real

Union Busting as Development: Transnationalism, Empire and Kennedy's Secret Labour Programme for Bolivia

Reflecting on the ‘cultural turn’: new directions in the study of Anglo-American relations and the special relationship

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