International labour and the origins of the Cold War
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International labour and the origins of the Cold War
Oxford University Press, 1992
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Bibliography: p. [297]-316
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the role of industrial unions in the launch of the Cold War in the 1940s. Using unpublished archival material from Europe and American, Denis MacShane challenges existing interpretations of international labour's role in the Cold War, arguing that European traditions and political differences were more important than American interventions in determining labour's attitudes to international problems after 1945. Existing interpretations which focus on national confederations such as the TUC in Britain or the AFL in America treat the question of labour and the Cold War as a political and diplomatic quarrel. Dr MacShane destroys the myth that the TUC shaped post-war trade union structures in West Germany, or that any TUC blueprint existed for German industrial trade unionism after 1945. In particular he examines trade unions in the engineering, steel, car, and metal industries who were at the peak of their power, size, and influence in 1945. Their productionist philosophy, which was powerfully tapped by the Marshall Plan, is examined to show why Leninist and Stalinist forms of trade union organization were rejected after 1945.
Table of Contents
- International Trade Union politics
- Metalworkers and Trade Union Internationalism 1890-1920
- The impact of Communism on the International Metalworkers Federation 1920-1940
- Metalworkers and the creation of the World Federation of Trade Unions
- Centralism or diversity: Two world views
- The American Federation of Labor and the International Labour Movement after the Second World War
- Internationalism and the Congress of Industrial Organizations
- The Congress of Industrial Organizations, the WFTU, and the Marshall Plan
- British Metalworkers and the origins of the Cold War
- British Metalworkers, Communism, and the Soviet Union after 1945
- The politics of German unions after the end of Nazism
- The organisation of German Metalworkers after 1945
- The divisions in French Unions
- External interference in French Labour
- The lessons of 1945.
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