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The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War: Problems, Paradigms, and Pragmatic Responses
| Location: | Belgium |
| Workshop Date: | 2011-10-07 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2011-09-07 |
| Announcement ID: |
187769 |
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The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War: Problems, Paradigms, and Pragmatic Responses
October 7-8, 2011, Congress Center ‘Het Pand’, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
The international workshop, “The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War: Problems, Paradigms, and Pragmatic Responses,” at Congress Center ‘Het Pand’ in Ghent (October 7-8, 2011), will explore the Cold War international history of US labor’s relations with worldwide organized labor.
To draw attention to this reinvigorated field of study, the organizers have brought together scholars whose work spans five continents to offer a global approach to the phenomenon of an “activist” American trade union movement. The participants have used recently opened labor archives that have generally been ignored by Cold War scholars. The presentations will demonstrate how the AFL-CIO played a significant and usually overlooked role in Cold War international political history.
Topics covered include the relationship between the AFL-CIO and
- the CIA
- Poland’s Solidarity trade union
- the Algerian Revolution
- the Brazilian Coup of 1964
- the Chilean Coup of 1973
- “Slave Labor” in the Soviet Union
- Modernization
- South Vietnam
- Gender Politics
- post-war Italy
- post-war France
- Latin American labor
- neutralism in sub-Saharan Africa
Program can be found at
www.amsab.be/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=916&Itemid=591
For more information, contact
Geert van Goethem, geert.vangoethem@amsab.be
Organized by
Amsab-Institute of Social History
With the collaboration of
Ghent University
Free University of Brussels
Ohio Northern University
International Institute of Social History
With the generous financial support of
Gerrit Kreveld Foundation
ABVV-Textiel Kleding Diamant
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