Download or read book American Labor's Global Ambassadors written by Robert Anthony Waters Jr. and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, the AFL-CIO pursued an ambitious agenda of containing global communism and helping to throw off the shackles of colonialism. This sweeping collection brings together contributions from leading historians to explore its successes, challenges, and inevitable compromises as it pursued these initiatives during the Cold War.