U.S. Labor Movement and Latin America - A History of Workers' Response to Intervention; Vol. I 1846-1919

This is history as it should be written: massive research and thorough documentation producing a story that tells itself. Recommended for academic history, labor, and Latin American studies collections. Choice

Foner's book is primarily valuable as a documentary record. It pays meticulous attention to the labour and socialist press of the time. . . . [A] worthy source of information. Latin America Connexions

This noted historian writes in his fluid style about the sometimes contradictory positions taken by the labor unions and socialists in response to American intervention in Central America (long before today's Contras), from the Mexican War of 1846 to the founding of the Pan-American Federation of Labor in 1918.

Product details

• Authors: Philip S. Foner
• Publisher: Praeger
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.1988
• EAN: 9780897891318
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-131-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 240 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 529 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education