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| Genre/Form: | History |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Silverman, Victor, 1957- Imagining internationalism in American and British labor, 1939-49. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2000 (OCoLC)607450982 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Victor Silverman |
| ISBN: | 0252024907 9780252024900 025206805X 9780252068058 |
| OCLC Number: | 40480267 |
| Description: | xiv, 298 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The Transformation of Labor Internationalism -- pt. 1. Ideas and Realities in the International Labor Community. 1. Communists, Socialists, and Liberals in International Labor. 2. Chinese Sailors, Exile Unions, and the Limits of Practical Internationalism -- pt. 2. The British. 3. "Castles of Dreams": British Workers and the World. 4. "What We Want We Shan't Get": The Decline of Internationalism. 5. "Hoodwinking Ourselves": British Unions and the Politics of Internationalism. 6. "A Grave and Conscious Moral Force": The TUC and the End of Alliance -- pt. 3. The Americans. 7. "A House Divided against Itself": American Workers and the World. 8. Americanism and Internationalism. 9. "A Positively Mystical Vision": The CIO and the Politics of Internationalism. 10. "Neither Stalin nor Standard Oil": The Search for a CIO Identity -- Conclusion: Cynicism and Universalism -- The World the Workers Lost. |
| Series Title: | Working class in American history. |
| Responsibility: | Victor Silverman. |
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"This carefully documented book makes novel use of opinion surveys of workers and offers a detailed picture of international aspects of labor union activity during a momentous period in international affairs. A worthy addition to this important series." -- Choice "Silverman does not like the ending, but he tells the story very well." -- Ronald L. Filippelli, American Historical Review, "Silverman's research will surely have to be considered seriously in all future discussions of twentieth-century labor." -- Bryan D. Palmer, Journal of American History "This is a book about failure. Silverman has examined the failure of the social democratic promise to embed itself as the reality of the lives of people in the post-World War II world... An extremely rich and suggestive work... Silverman's contribution is in illuminating the role of the TUC and the CIO while paying close attention to the relationship between the rank and file and international relations in the two countries." -- Stephen Burwood, Labor History, ADVANCE PRAISE "A well-crafted, fully engaged historical argument that all students of the postwar world must confront."-Nelson Lichtenstein Read more...
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- International labor activities -- History.
- International labor activities.
- Labor unions and communism.
- Labor unions -- Political activity.
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- United States.
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- Internationale Arbeiterbewegung
- Großbritannien
- Internationalismus
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