Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism

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Elizabeth McKillen

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ISBN 10: 0252083865 ISBN 13: 9780252083860

Published by University of Illinois Press, 2018

Language: English

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Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Publication Date

2018

Language

English

ISBN 10

0252083865

ISBN 13

9780252083860

Binding

Soft cover

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1st Edition

Condition

As New

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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 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. McKillen's spotlight falls on the American Federation of Labor, whose leadership collaborated extensively with Wilson, assisting with propaganda, policy, and diplomacy. At the same time, other labor groups (and even sub-groups within the AFL) vehemently opposed Wilsonian internationalism. 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.

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Elizabeth McKillen is a professor of history at the University of Maine and the author of Chicago Labor and the Quest for a Democratic Diplomacy: 1914-1924

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