Making the World Safe for Workers
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03787-0 (ISBN)
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In this intellectually ambitious study, Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the influence of American labor in both shaping and undermining the foreign policies and war mobilization efforts of Woodrow Wilson's administration. McKillen highlights the major fault lines that emerged within labor circles as Wilson pursued his agenda in the context of Mexican and European revolutions, World War I, and the Versailles Peace Conference. McKillen's spotlight falls on the American Federation of Labor, whose leadership collaborated extensively with Wilson, assisting with propaganda, policy, and diplomacy. At the same time, other labor groups (and even sub-groups within the AFL) vehemently opposed Wilsonian internationalism. As McKillen shows, the choice to collaborate with or resist U.S. foreign policy remained an important one for labor throughout the twentieth century. In fact, it continues to resonate today in debates over the global economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impact of U.S. policies on workers at home and abroad.
Elizabeth McKillen is a professor of history at the University of Maine and the author of Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy: 1914-1924
CoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Mexico and the Western HemisphereChapter 1: The Mexican Revolution as CatalystPart II: World War I and the U.S. Labor Debate over Neutrality and PreparednessChapter 2: The Outbreak of World War I and the Socialist "War on War"Chapter 3: Antiwar Cultures of the AFL, the Debate over Preparedness, and the Gompers TurnaboutPart III: U.S. BelligerencyChapter 4: Dialectical RelationshipsChapter 5: The AFL, International Labor Politics, and Labor Dissent in 1918Part IV: Versailles and Its AftermathChapter 6: Making the World Safe for Workers?Chapter 7: U.S. Labor Irreconcilables and Reservationists and the Founding ILO Conference in WashingConclusionNotesAbbreviations and Primary SourcesIndex
| Reihe/Serie | Working Class in American History |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Baltimore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-252-03787-1 / 0252037871 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-03787-0 / 9780252037870 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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