AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers - Solidarity or Sabotage?

Informationen zum Autor By Kim Scipes Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Kim Scipes, Scipes Kim
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2011
• EAN: 9780739135020
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3502-0
• No. of pages: 274
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 152 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Developing Countries, Trade Unions, United States of America, USA, Development Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions, Global South / Developing countries