
Liberal Workers of the World, Unite?
The ICFTU and the Defence of Labour Liberalism in Europe and Latin America (1949-1969)
Magaly Rodriguez Garcia(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 17. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
338 pages
978-3-0343-0112-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
num. tables and graphs
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0343-0112-1 (9783034301121)
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0269-1
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Magaly Rodriguez Garcia
Liberal Workers of the World, Unite?
The ICFTU and the Defence of Labour Liberalism in Europe and Latin America (1949-1969)
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Person
Magaly Rodríguez García was born in Ecuador and received her PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She currently holds a postdoctoral research grant from the Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium) and works in close cooperation with the Amsterdam-based International Institute of Social History.
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.