Popular Bases of the International Labor Movement in the United States and Britain, 1939–1949
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9968170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Silverman (0000-0003-4957-4905, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-320 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Social History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8590 • E-ISSN: 1469-512X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020859000112106 |
| OpenAlex | W2029274151 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 44 |
This paper examines the working class in the United States and Britain in order to find a new perspective on the origins and break-up of the World Federation of Trade Unions. While most previous works have focused on the roles of institutions and leaders, this research uncovers the important role played by the thoughts, actions, and inactions of average workers in international affairs. American and British workers, as key constituents of two of the most important organizations making up the WFTU, were not passive observers of world events. Rather, they were critical not only of how the world union movement functioned, but also of the process which came to be termed the Cold War
Cold war · Economic history · Economics · First world war · International trade · Movement (music · Order (exchange · Perspective (graphical · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Trade union · World order · World War II · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · History · International Labor and Employment Law · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration
Prisoners of the American dream
Englishness
Between Two Cultures
The heyday of American communism
American exodus
John Bull’s Island
Coal is our life
War Without Mercy
White Collar
Labor's War at Home
Ernest Bevin
Working-Class Americanism
Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914–1964
The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936–1939
The Decline, Revival and Fall of the British Empire
Making a New Deal
How We Learned to Love the Russians
The Making of the Postwar Working Class
Race relations or industrial relations
American Labor and the Catholic Church, 1919-1950
Social Patriotism and the British Working Class
The American Communist Party, a Critical History (1919-1957)
The American Communist Party
Becoming American
American Opinion and the Russian Alliance, 1939-1945
The Emergence of a UAW Local, 1936-1939
And My Children Did Not Know Me
As We Saw the Thirties
The Schism within the World Federation of Trade Unions
European Volunteer Workers in Britain
The Affluent Worker
Wartime Shipyard. A Study of Social Disunity
International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War
Trade Unions and the Labour Party Since 1945
War and Social Change
La scission de la Federation syndicale mondiale (1947-1949)
The Interaction Between Race and Colonialism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 1996 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |