Robert J. Alexander, Eldon Parker

International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean (eBook, ePUB)

A History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The first scholarly work to focus exclusively on the roles of pan-regional and worldwide labor organizations in the labor movements across the nations of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

With a career that covers over a half century, Robert J. Alexander is perhaps our foremost authority on Latin American history and politics. In International Labor Organizations and Organized Labor in Latin America and the Caribbean: A History, Alexander explores one of the most fascinating and often overlooked aspects of the Latin American labor scene he has so meticulously chronicled: the relationships between labor unions within specific nations, region wide organizations, and organized labor around the world.

Alexander has written many of the cornerstone works on labor movements within the nations of Latin America, and this is his first volume to focus on the impact of international unions on Latin American labor issues. Coverage includes the AFL-offshoot Pan American Federation of Labor and the CIA-backed AIFLD; the role of the Russian Union, Profintern; European-based unions like the anti-Communist/anti-Fascist Postal Telegraph and Telephone International; and intraregional organizations like the Confederacion de Trabajadores de America Latina (CTAL)-the first attempt to form a multinational labor organization exclusively for the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216103813
• Artikelnr.: 70037598

Autorenporträt

ROBERT J. ALEXANDER is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Political Science, Rutgers University. He was a member of John F. Kennedy's Task Force on Latin America where the Alliance for Progress was developed, and he is a former consultant to the American Federation of Labor and the AFL-CIO on Latin American and Caribbean organized labor. One of the country's most respected scholars of Latin American politics and economic affairs, Professor Alexander is the author or editor of forty-five earlier books, most of them focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean, including The Bolivian National Revolution, the first English-language study of that upheaval, and the history of labor and radical movements.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1 Anarchosyndicalist Unions and ACAT 2 The Pan
American Federation of Labor 3 The Communists and CSLA 4 The Early Years of
CTAL 5 The Declining CTAL and Its Successor 6 The Confederación
Interamericana de Trabajadores 7 The Early Decades of ORIT 8 The
Reorientation of ORIT 9 ATLAS 10 CLASC and CLAT 11 Subregional Labor Groups
12 The International Trade Secretariats 13 The American Institute for Free
Labor Development Bibliography Index