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Book Review
Comparative/World
Victor Silverman. Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 19391949. (The Working Class in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 298. Cloth $59.95, paper $24.95.
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Between 1941 and 1946, trade union leaders from Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States cooperated in the great crusade to defeat fascism. The major tangible result of their labors was the creation of a worldwide federation of trade unions to represent workers the world over in the construction of a just postwar world. A few years later, the organization, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), shattered on the rocks of the Cold War, splitting into blocs reflecting the postwar power and interests of the Soviet Union and the United States. |
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