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Liberal Workers of the World, Unite? The ICFTU, Europe and Latin America
Rodríguez García, Magaly
Liberal Workers of the World, Unite?
The ICFTU and the Defence of Labour Liberalism in Europe and Latin America
(1949-1969)
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010. XVI, 338 pp., num. tables and graphs
Trade Unions Past, Present and Future
Print: ISBN 978-3-0343-0112-1 pb.
SFR 71.00 / €* 48.70 / €** 50.10 / € 45.50 / £ 41.00 / US-$ 70.95
Order online: www.peterlang.com
Book synopsis
The history of international free trade union organisations during the first two decades of the Cold War is an important but often neglected
aspect of the development of post-war labour and liberalism. In this path-breaking book, Rodríguez García fills this void in the historical literature
by offering a comparative analysis of two cases, the European Regional Organisation (ERO) and the Inter-American Regional Workers'
Organisation (ORIT), which were created in the early 1950s as regional branches of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU). The author employs the term 'labour liberalism' to describe their wide variety of functions. She argues that social democratic and
reformist trade unions, which made up the bulk of ICFTU members, were fundamentally shaped by liberal values, even while calling for the
active participation of organised labour in the planning and implementation of projects promoting liberal democracy and socio-economic
development at home and abroad. By placing international free trade unionism centre stage, this book adds significantly to our understanding of
post-war labour and liberalism.
Content
Contents:
Free trade unions' ideological roots - International liberalism - International unionism in Europe and Latin America - Free trade unions'
nationalism: views on political democracy - Free trade unions' nationalism: views on socio-economic policy - Free trade unions' regionalism and
internationalism: views on integration and free trade - Free trade unions and labour liberalism.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Magaly Rodríguez García was born in Ecuador and received her Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She currently holds a postdoctoral
research grant from the Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium) and works in close coopera tion with the Amsterdam-based International
Institute of Social History.
Liberal Workers of the World, Unite?
The ICFTU and the Defence of Labour Liberalism in Europe and Latin America
(1949-1969)
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2010. XVI, 338 pp., num. tables and graphs
Trade Unions Past, Present and Future
Print: ISBN 978-3-0343-0112-1 pb.
SFR 71.00 / €* 48.70 / €** 50.10 / € 45.50 / £ 41.00 / US-$ 70.95
Order online: www.peterlang.com
Book synopsis
The history of international free trade union organisations during the first two decades of the Cold War is an important but often neglected
aspect of the development of post-war labour and liberalism. In this path-breaking book, Rodríguez García fills this void in the historical literature
by offering a comparative analysis of two cases, the European Regional Organisation (ERO) and the Inter-American Regional Workers'
Organisation (ORIT), which were created in the early 1950s as regional branches of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
(ICFTU). The author employs the term 'labour liberalism' to describe their wide variety of functions. She argues that social democratic and
reformist trade unions, which made up the bulk of ICFTU members, were fundamentally shaped by liberal values, even while calling for the
active participation of organised labour in the planning and implementation of projects promoting liberal democracy and socio-economic
development at home and abroad. By placing international free trade unionism centre stage, this book adds significantly to our understanding of
post-war labour and liberalism.
Content
Contents:
Free trade unions' ideological roots - International liberalism - International unionism in Europe and Latin America - Free trade unions'
nationalism: views on political democracy - Free trade unions' nationalism: views on socio-economic policy - Free trade unions' regionalism and
internationalism: views on integration and free trade - Free trade unions and labour liberalism.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Magaly Rodríguez García was born in Ecuador and received her Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She currently holds a postdoctoral
research grant from the Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium) and works in close coopera tion with the Amsterdam-based International
Institute of Social History.
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Comment by peter waterman on October 5, 2010 at 17:59 -
OK, Andy. Let's see if anyone else wants to comment.
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Comment by Andynorthstarwa on October 5, 2010 at 15:56 -
Well lets not allow ourselves peter to dislodged from 1 the workers (class) we represent or supposedly represent as trade unionist, and 2 the real issues at hand , and in this case the ICFTU, and its so called position in international affairs. My ideological position is neither hear nor there, one would hope that the right to criticise and be criticised amounts trade unionist is one avenue for allowing the broadest possible discussion of the topic at hand (ICFTU) by as many workers as possible was a good thing. after all criticism and self criticism has been a guiding principal for all democratic trade Union's since the industrial revolution and that to which (I think , I could be wrong) union book is all about, IE giving criticism to union policy and there for advancing the discussion of trade union's and there activist and there worth to our class and society in general. For i think it is in the interest of workers to be more educated than less. Trade union's should be run from the bottom up not from the top down as the ICFTU was and is.
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Comment by peter waterman on October 5, 2010 at 15:15
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Andy? I have been hoping that UnionBook will be a place in which it is possible to have serious discussion about inter/national labour matters rather than 1) to confront the possibly new evidence and argument this book contains and 2) to reproduce the attitudes and language of Stalinised Marxism.
But maybe I am letting myself be influenced by your icon of what Stalin and Stalinists called 'The Four Great Teachers'.
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Comment by Andynorthstarwa on October 5, 2010 at 14:12
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If one ever wondered how far the imperialist's will go to stifle class struggle and internationalism in the trade union movement, just (by the looks of it) have a look at this vile attempt to justify class collaboration. One wonder's how far the collaborators (criminals) at the helm of this pro capitalist organisation will go, ? will they openly declare there support for Israeli Zionism ? and while there at it, the master's of the onslaught against the world's worker's today, the imperialist of the US of A.
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