Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism - Couverture rigide

McKillen, Elizabeth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0252037871 ISBN 13 : 9780252037870

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252037871
• ISBN 13: 9780252037870
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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