Making the World Safe for Workers

Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism

Elizabeth McKillen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2018
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252083860 (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 and conflicts 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. 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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	13 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft
ISBN-13	9780252083860 / 9780252083860
Zustand	Neuware