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- Book Title
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Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN-10
0739135023
ISBN-13
9780739135020
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109007621
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Number of Pages
274 Pages
Publication Name
Afl-Cio's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers : Solidarity or Sabotage?
Language
English
Subject
Labor & Industrial Relations, Ngos (Non-Governmental Organizations), Developing & Emerging Countries
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
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0.6 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
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9 in
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6 in
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While much has been written on this issue over the past 30 years, this work is an important contribution in a number of ways…. It is a great resource that should be made accessible to trade union activists and rank-and-file members., This work is an important contribution….provide a rich resource for future activists and scholars who want to explore these histories further or take them on politically in their union….it is a great resource that should be made accessible to trade union activists and rank-and-file members., A welcome, overdue, and highly informed expose of U.S. labor imperialism and its nefarious effects both in the "third" or 'developing' world.... Scipes' knowledge of the secondary academic and journalistic literature on American labor's foreign policy record is encyclopedic., This work is an important contribution .provide a rich resource for future activists and scholars who want to explore these histories further or take them on politically in their union .it is a great resource that should be made accessible to trade union activists and rank-and-file members., This is an important new book for students of American labor's international activities and policies. Combining his own research with a vast knowledge of the secondary literature in this important but too often overlooked field, Kim Scipes has produced a unique historical and sociological synthesis. It is also a passionate brief for the need for change, transparency and democracy in American labor's foreign policy. Those who are interested in developing a truly progressive American labor movement will need to consult these pages, and wrestle with our interventionist labor history, before arriving at their own conclusions..., The AFL-CIO's Secret War answers its own title question: 'Solidarity or Sabotage?' Kim Scipes draws together more evidence of the latter than can be found between any other two book covers. This volume is clearly written out of love for the union movement and our international working class. In focusing from various points of view on the historically concealed government funded role of AFL-CIO officialdom, carrying the bags for Corporate America abroad in pursuit of Empire, Scipes lets the cats out of the bags. This scholarly work will piss off key players in labor's hierarchy who, not wanting to 'wash our dirty laundry in public,' have let the dirty laundry accumulate so its stink undermines honesty, transparency and solidarity. Getting this book into the hard working hands of the women and men who ARE the unions will contribute immensely to building international solidarity and the vitality, vision and power of our labor movement itself.., This is an important new book for students of American labor's international activities and policies. Combining his own research with a vast knowledge of the secondary literature in this important but too often overlooked field, Kim Scipes has produced aunique historical and sociological synthesis. It is also a passionate brief for the need for change, transparency and democracy in American labor's foreign policy. Those who are interested in developing a truly progressive American labor movement will need to consult these pages, and wrestle with our interventionist labor history, before arriving at their own conclusions..., The AFL-CIO's Secret War answers its own title question: ?Solidarity or Sabotage? Kim Scipes draws together more evidence of the latter than can be found between any other two book covers. This volume is clearly written out of love for the union movement and our international working class. In focusing from various points of view on the historically concealed government funded role of AFL-CIO officialdom, carrying the bags for Corporate America abroad in pursuit of Empire, Scipes lets the catsout of the bags. This scholarly work will piss off key players in labor's hierarchy who, not wanting to ?wash our dirty laundry in public,? have let the dirty laundry accumulate so its stink undermines honesty, transparency and solidarity. Getting thisbook into the hard working hands of the women and men who ARE the unions will contribute immensely to building international solidarity and the vitality, vision and power of our labor movement itself.., A welcome, overdue, and highly informed expose of U.S. labor imperialism and its nefarious effects both in the "third" or "developing" world…. Scipes' knowledge of the secondary academic and journalistic literature on American labor's foreign policy record is encyclopedic., Scipes's approach to this history and the issues arising from it is very clearly linked to and revealing of his many years as a union activist engaged in struggles to build grassroots international solidarity within the US labour movement. AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? draws from decades of activist work and scholarship that emerged from a number of international solidarity movements within US labour that challenged the AFL-CIO's participation in American imperialist projects. ...The importance and urgency in challenging the AFL-CIO's past and present collaboration with US imperialism arises from the threat it poses to trade unionists globally and the obstacle it creates for those who are working to transform the labour movement locally....While much has been written on this issue over the past 30 years, this work is an important contribution in a number of ways. It offers to current and future labour activists a compendium of the vast array of writing on labour imperialism, as well as the debates on the AFL-CIO's historical record. The endnotes alone provide a rich resource for future activists and scholars who want to explore these histories further or take them on politically in their union. ....It is a great resource that should be made accessible to trade union activists and rank-and-file members., This work is an important contribution....provide a rich resource for future activists and scholars who want to explore these histories further or take them on politically in their union....it is a great resource that should be made accessible to trade union activists and rank-and-file members., While much has been written on this issue over the past 30 years, this work is an important contribution in a number of ways . It is a great resource that should be made accessible to trade union activists and rank-and-file members., While much has been written on this issue over the past 30 years, this work is an important contribution in a number of ways.... It is a great resource that should be made accessible to trade union activists and rank-and-file members., A welcome, overdue, and highly informed expose of U.S. labor imperialism and its nefarious effects both in the "third" or "developing" world . Scipes' knowledge of the secondary academic and journalistic literature on American labor's foreign policy record is encyclopedic.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
331.091724
Table Of Content
Chapter 1: Business Unionism, Samuel Gompers and AFL Foreign Policy Chapter 2: One Hundred Years of Reaction: From Gompers to Sweeney Chapter 3: War Within Labor-The Struggle to Build International Labor Solidarity Chapter 4: The U.S. Government and Labor Chapter 5: Conclusions, Some Ramifications, and Effects On Sociological Theory
Synopsis
The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker next to you, but to working people all around the world, wherever they might be. Some of the foremost proponents of these principles in the United States since the 1880s has been the American Federation of Labor (AFL), then later the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and since their merger in 1955, the AFL-CIO. However, unknown to many labor leaders and most union members in the U.S., the foreign policy leaders of the AFL and then the AFL-CIO, have been carrying out an international foreign policy that has worked against workers in a number of "developing countries." This has been done on their own, and in collaboration with the U.S. Government and its agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Agency for International Development, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee for Labor and Diplomacy. In the post-World War II period, this foreign policy program has led to the AFL-CIO's foreign policy leadership helping to overthrow democratically elected governments-Guatemala (1954), Brazil (1964), Chile (1973); to support dictatorships in countries such as Guatemala, Brazil and Chile (after their respective military coups), as well as in countries such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Korea; and to support efforts by reactionary labor leaders to help overthrow their democratically-elected leaders as in Venezuela in 2002. It has also included providing AFL-CIO support for U.S. Government policies around the world, including support for apartheid in South Africa. This book argues that these activities-done behind the backs and without the informed knowledge of American trade unionists-acts to sabotage the very principles of trade unionism that these leaders proclaim to, The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and life for themselves and all others. In its most developed forms, this extends not only to the worker next to you, but to working people all around the world, wherever they might be. Some of the foremost proponents of these principles in the United States since the 1880s has been the American Federation of Labor (AFL), then later the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and since their merger in 1955, the AFL-CIO., This book examines the themes of imperialism and empire from the perspective of the foreign policy program of organized labor in the United States. It details efforts to make real popular democracy within Labor. The author calls for American workers to join the global movement for economic and social justice and to extend globalization from 'below' against the values and activities of the top-down and destructive military-corporate globalization that has been sweeping the world for years.
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HD6508.S343 2011
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