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"Reprehensible repercussions": The AFL-CIO, free trade unionism, and the Vietnam War, 1947-1975.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Reprehensible repercussions": The AFL-CIO, free trade unionism, and the Vietnam War, 1947-1975./
Author:	Wehrle, Edmund F.
Description:	371 p.
Notes:	Chair: David Sicilia.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-06A.
Subject:	Economics, Labor. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9836500
ISBN:	9780591899986

"Reprehensible repercussions": The AFL-CIO, free trade unionism, and the Vietnam War, 1947-1975.
Wehrle, Edmund F.

"Reprehensible repercussions": The AFL-CIO, free trade unionism, and the Vietnam War, 1947-1975. - 371 p.

Chair: David Sicilia.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 1998.

The AFL-CIO underwent a series of devastating political reversals during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the center of these setbacks was the Vietnam conflict, a war in which American labor participated intimately. The AFL-CIO not only supported the general war effort, but also became deeply involved in the affairs of South Vietnam by supporting a large and politically-active labor movement, the Vietnamese Confederation of Labor, under the able leadership of nationalist Tran Quoc Buu. But this involvement had ruinous repercussions. By the early 1970s, the AFL-CIO's Vietnam policies had split the American labor movement and caused a fissure between labor and its liberal allies in the Democratic party. The labor organization thus entered the 1970s--a decade of enormous economic challenges for workers--a weak and divided force.

ISBN: 9780591899986Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

"Reprehensible repercussions": The AFL-CIO, free trade unionism, and the Vietnam War, 1947-1975.
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520 $a The AFL-CIO underwent a series of devastating political reversals during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the center of these setbacks was the Vietnam conflict, a war in which American labor participated intimately. The AFL-CIO not only supported the general war effort, but also became deeply involved in the affairs of South Vietnam by supporting a large and politically-active labor movement, the Vietnamese Confederation of Labor, under the able leadership of nationalist Tran Quoc Buu. But this involvement had ruinous repercussions. By the early 1970s, the AFL-CIO's Vietnam policies had split the American labor movement and caused a fissure between labor and its liberal allies in the Democratic party. The labor organization thus entered the 1970s--a decade of enormous economic challenges for workers--a weak and divided force.
520 $a At the core of labor's remarkable involvement in foreign affairs--which extended well beyond Vietnam--was a series of interrelated goals and ideals that the AFL-CIO leadership termed "free trade unionism." In particular, the ideology stressed an activist anticommunism abroad and full-employment economics at home. While aknowledging an anticommunism abroad and full-employment economics at home. While aknowledging an expanded role for government, free trade unionism--rooted in the ideology of Samuel Gompers yet transformed by the experience of Depression, New Deal--mandated that labor remain essentially independent of all outside influences--especially the state.
520 $a Such independence proved difficult to maintain as the AFL-CIO grew dependent on government funding for its far-reaching foreign operations. Buu's organization in South Vietnam also experienced many of the same tensions and contradictions as it strove to retain its independence yet create much needed alliances. While Buu was grateful when the AFL-CIO set up a permanent presence in Saigon in 1968, he worried that the American aid would taint him in the eyes of his countrymen. Yet neither the American nor South Vietnam labor movements ever fully escaped the impression that they acted as mere extensions of the state. By 1975, South Vietnam was overrun; Buu's movement was destroyed, and free trade unionism was discredited in the U.S. The AFL-CIO--once at the center of a strong liberal, anti-communist coalition--now found itself politically and culturally isolated.
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