Edmund F Wehrle
Biographic Data
| ID | 291572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edmund F Wehrle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edmund F |
| FAMILY NAME | Wehrle |
| SIGNATURE | WEHRLE E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“The Nucleus of Craftsmen Needed to Build a Firm National Foundation”
During the Vietnam War, the US military and associated contractors employed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and third country nationals. The U.S. Office of Civilian Personnel (OCP), charged with overseeing labor relations in Vietnam, introduced grievance processes, labor-employer councils, training programs, union-friendly policies, and other reforms—with the goal of serving U.S. war aims and modernizing the Vietnamese workforce. The results …
From Union Halls to the Suburbs
Syndromes” and “Solutions”
“I just stayed awake last night thinking of this thing, and the more that I think of it I don't know what in the hell, it looks like to me that we're getting into another Korea. It just worries the hell out of me.”1 – Lyndon Johnson phone conversation with McGeorge Bundy, May 27, 1964 The Korean War—as evidenced by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s lament to his special assistant for national security—hung painfully over debates about intervention …
A Delicate Relationship
For many Westerners, Burma (changed to Myanmar in 1989) carries both distant and familiar connotations. The bitter jungle warfare of World War II and the more recent heroic struggles of Aung San Suu Kyi, the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, certainly stand out as bookmarks. The complex intervening years, however, are foggier. Fortunately, the veteran historian Kenton Clymer has stepped in with an enormously well-researched, clear, and cogent…
Aid Where It Is Needed Most”
Between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, American organized labor emerged among the most enthusiastic supporters of the military–industrial complex. This study examines that emerging relationship, focusing on the efforts of a group of unionists to mold defense spending into a vehicle for promoting employment and addressing social and economic problems. During the Korean War, labor representatives drafted, lobbied for, and helped administration Defen…
Foreign Affairs! That's for People Who Don't Have to Work to Make a Living
Kudos to the editors for this special issue exploring the intersections between labor and diplomatic history. Diplomatic historians long have urged expanding their field beyond the narrow confines of elite decision makers. This roundtable, responding to that mandate, offers yet more evidence of a thriving field, embracing new subject matters and approaches—and emerging richer for the exercise. U.S. labor history, in my analysis, could benefit fro…
Featured reviews
Partisan for the Hard Hats”
the tenacious ex-communist who headed the AFL-CIO's vehemently anticommunist International Affairs Department, arrived for a secret rendezvous with
American policy orientalized
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam presents a prime example of the controversial new cultural trend in U.S. diplomatic history. On the surface, the author's depiction of the process whereby Ngo Dinh Diem became America's candidate to head the new country of South Vietnam is familiar (see, for instance, George Herring, America's Longest War , Temple University Press, 1986, 50–69). Echoing others, Jacobs argues that the U.S. promotion of Diem ultimat…
Race over Empire
Between a River and a Mountain
Between a River and a Mountain details American labor's surprisingly complex relationship to the American war in Vietnam. Breaking from the simplistic story of "hard hat patriotism," Wehrle uses newly released archival material to demonstrate the AFL-CIO's continuing dedication to social, political, and economic reform in Vietnam. The complex, sometimes turbulent, relationship between American union leaders and their counterparts in the Vietnames…
Guns, Butter, Leon Keyserling, the AFL‐CIO, and the Fate of Full‐Employment Economics
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEdmund F. WehrleEdmund F. Wherle is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois University
Welfare and Warfare
In the decades following World War II, U.S. organized labor became a vigorous supporter of the military-industrial complex. Clearly, trade unionists appreciated the plentiful jobs produced by such spending. Representatives of organized labor also worked hard, behind the scenes, to channel military dollars to serve what they saw as the broader needs of society. In particular, trade unionists sponsored programs designed to direct defense spending t…
The War against the New Deal
No More Pressing Task than Organization in Southeast Asia
By the beginning of World War II, a group of dedicated internationalists with strong anti-Communist leanings had assembled at the AFL headquarters in Washington, DC. Included in the group were
No More Pressing Task than Organization in Southeast Asia
By the beginning of World War II, a group of dedicated internationalists with strong anti-Communist leanings had assembled at the AFL headquarters in Washington, DC.Included in the group were
No More Pressing Task than Organization in Southeast Asia
By the beginning of World War II, a group of dedicated internationalists with strong anti-Communist leanings had assembled at the AFL headquarters in Washington, DC.Included in the group were
Forbidden workers
A Good, Bad Deal
This article appeared in Pacific Historical Review, Volume 67 (August 1998)
Welfare and Warfare
In the decades following World War II, U.S. organized labor became a vigorous supporter of the military-industrial complex. Clearly, trade unionists appreciated the plentiful jobs produced by such spending. Representatives of organized labor also worked hard, behind the scenes, to channel military dollars to serve what they saw as the broader needs of society. In particular, trade unionists sponsored programs designed to direct defense spending t…
Aid Where It Is Needed Most”
Between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, American organized labor emerged among the most enthusiastic supporters of the military–industrial complex. This study examines that emerging relationship, focusing on the efforts of a group of unionists to mold defense spending into a vehicle for promoting employment and addressing social and economic problems. During the Korean War, labor representatives drafted, lobbied for, and helped administration Defen…
Partisan for the Hard Hats”
the tenacious ex-communist who headed the AFL-CIO's vehemently anticommunist International Affairs Department, arrived for a secret rendezvous with
Forbidden workers
A Good, Bad Deal
This article appeared in Pacific Historical Review, Volume 67 (August 1998)
A Good, Bad Deal
This article appeared in Pacific Historical Review, Volume 67 (August 1998)
Forbidden workers
No More Pressing Task than Organization in Southeast Asia
By the beginning of World War II, a group of dedicated internationalists with strong anti-Communist leanings had assembled at the AFL headquarters in Washington, DC. Included in the group were
No More Pressing Task than Organization in Southeast Asia
By the beginning of World War II, a group of dedicated internationalists with strong anti-Communist leanings had assembled at the AFL headquarters in Washington, DC.Included in the group were
No More Pressing Task than Organization in Southeast Asia
By the beginning of World War II, a group of dedicated internationalists with strong anti-Communist leanings had assembled at the AFL headquarters in Washington, DC.Included in the group were
The War against the New Deal
Welfare and Warfare
In the decades following World War II, U.S. organized labor became a vigorous supporter of the military-industrial complex. Clearly, trade unionists appreciated the plentiful jobs produced by such spending. Representatives of organized labor also worked hard, behind the scenes, to channel military dollars to serve what they saw as the broader needs of society. In particular, trade unionists sponsored programs designed to direct defense spending t…
Guns, Butter, Leon Keyserling, the AFL‐CIO, and the Fate of Full‐Employment Economics
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEdmund F. WehrleEdmund F. Wherle is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Illinois University
Between a River and a Mountain
Between a River and a Mountain details American labor's surprisingly complex relationship to the American war in Vietnam. Breaking from the simplistic story of "hard hat patriotism," Wehrle uses newly released archival material to demonstrate the AFL-CIO's continuing dedication to social, political, and economic reform in Vietnam. The complex, sometimes turbulent, relationship between American union leaders and their counterparts in the Vietnames…
American policy orientalized
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam presents a prime example of the controversial new cultural trend in U.S. diplomatic history. On the surface, the author's depiction of the process whereby Ngo Dinh Diem became America's candidate to head the new country of South Vietnam is familiar (see, for instance, George Herring, America's Longest War , Temple University Press, 1986, 50–69). Echoing others, Jacobs argues that the U.S. promotion of Diem ultimat…
Race over Empire
Partisan for the Hard Hats”
the tenacious ex-communist who headed the AFL-CIO's vehemently anticommunist International Affairs Department, arrived for a secret rendezvous with
Featured reviews
Foreign Affairs! That's for People Who Don't Have to Work to Make a Living
Kudos to the editors for this special issue exploring the intersections between labor and diplomatic history. Diplomatic historians long have urged expanding their field beyond the narrow confines of elite decision makers. This roundtable, responding to that mandate, offers yet more evidence of a thriving field, embracing new subject matters and approaches—and emerging richer for the exercise. U.S. labor history, in my analysis, could benefit fro…
Aid Where It Is Needed Most”
Between the late 1940s and mid-1960s, American organized labor emerged among the most enthusiastic supporters of the military–industrial complex. This study examines that emerging relationship, focusing on the efforts of a group of unionists to mold defense spending into a vehicle for promoting employment and addressing social and economic problems. During the Korean War, labor representatives drafted, lobbied for, and helped administration Defen…
A Delicate Relationship
For many Westerners, Burma (changed to Myanmar in 1989) carries both distant and familiar connotations. The bitter jungle warfare of World War II and the more recent heroic struggles of Aung San Suu Kyi, the winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, certainly stand out as bookmarks. The complex intervening years, however, are foggier. Fortunately, the veteran historian Kenton Clymer has stepped in with an enormously well-researched, clear, and cogent…
Syndromes” and “Solutions”
“I just stayed awake last night thinking of this thing, and the more that I think of it I don't know what in the hell, it looks like to me that we're getting into another Korea. It just worries the hell out of me.”1 – Lyndon Johnson phone conversation with McGeorge Bundy, May 27, 1964 The Korean War—as evidenced by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson’s lament to his special assistant for national security—hung painfully over debates about intervention …
From Union Halls to the Suburbs
“The Nucleus of Craftsmen Needed to Build a Firm National Foundation”
During the Vietnam War, the US military and associated contractors employed hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and third country nationals. The U.S. Office of Civilian Personnel (OCP), charged with overseeing labor relations in Vietnam, introduced grievance processes, labor-employer councils, training programs, union-friendly policies, and other reforms—with the goal of serving U.S. war aims and modernizing the Vietnamese workforce. The results …
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