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Making the World Safe for Workers:

Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism
  • ISBN-13: 9780252083860
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Elizabeth McKillen
  • Price: AUD $60.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
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  • Local release date: 13/09/2018
  • Format: Paperback (235.00mm X 156.00mm) 320 pages Weight: 480g
  • Categories: Labour economics [KCF]
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In this intellectually ambitious study, Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the influence of American labor in both shaping and undermining the foreign policies and war mobilization efforts of Woodrow Wilson's administration. McKillen highlights the major fault lines and conflicts that emerged within labor circles as Wilson pursued his agenda in the context of Mexican and European revolutions, World War I, and the Versailles Peace Conference. As McKillen shows, the choice to collaborate with or resist U.S. foreign policy remained an important one for labor throughout the twentieth century. In fact, it continues to resonate today in debates over the global economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impact of U.S. policies on workers at home and abroad.
""Elizabeth McKillen tells a big and far-flung story exceptionally well. This book succeeds in showing how U.S. and European trade unions and socialist groups' conflicted efforts to democratize diplomacy changed the larger story of successful American opposition to Wilsonian internationalist goals.""--David R. Roediger, coauthor of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
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