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The United States and the European trade union movement, 1944-1951 / by Federico Romero ; translated by Harvey Fergusson II.

Author
Romero, Federico
Uniform Title
Stati Uniti e il sindacalismo europeo, 1944-1951. English
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 292 pages)
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Contents
Preface -- Abbreviations Used in the Text -- Pt. 1 The Postwar Reconversion, 1944-1946 -- Ch. 1 A Prosperous, Stable, and Democratic World (starting p. 3) -- The Unions and the Peace: The CIO (starting p. 8) -- The AFL and Its Anti-Soviet Policy (starting p. 12) -- The World Federation of Trade Unions (starting p. 17) -- The United States Government and the Trade Union Issue (starting p. 21) -- From the New Deal to Productivity (starting p. 25) -- Ch. 2 The Primacy of Politics: Italy (starting p. 31) -- Liberalizing the Trade Unions (starting p. 33) -- The Visit of the Anglo-American Trade Union Delegation (starting p. 37) -- The Allied Administration and the CGIL (starting p. 47) -- The Liberation (starting p. 52) -- The Confederation and the Political Parties (starting p. 59) -- Political Alliances (starting p. 65) -- Pt. 2 The World Splits in Two, 1947-1951 -- Ch. 3 The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan: Toward Anti-Communist Stabilization (starting p. 81) -- The American Mission in Greece (starting p. 83) -- The Attack on the WFTU (starting p. 88) -- The Marshall Plan (starting p. 96) -- The AFL on the Offensive (starting p. 103) -- The Crisis in the CIO (starting p. 107) -- Ch. 4 The Breakup of the International Trade Union Movement (starting p. 114) -- The Trade Union Conference for the ERP (starting p. 115) -- The Breakup of the WFTU (starting p. 122) -- "Western" Trade Unionism (starting p. 126) -- The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (starting p. 131) -- Ch. 5 Divisions and Realignments: The Italian Case (starting p. 138) -- Reformism and Anticommunism (starting p. 139) -- The CGIL, the ERP, and the Elections of 18 April 1948 (starting p. 148) -- The Catholic Withdrawal from the CGIL (starting p. 158) -- A Single, Large Anti-Communist Union (starting p. 164) -- Ch. 6 The European Recover Program: Toward a New Model of Society and Trade Unions (starting p. 175) -- The ECA and the Unions (starting p. 178) -- The ECA and Productivity: Between Stability and Modernization (starting p. 182) -- The Weakness of the Unions: The Italian Case (starting p. 191) -- Rearmament and the "Productivity Drive" (starting p. 201) -- Conclusion (starting p. 215) -- Notes (starting p. 227) -- Selected Sources (starting p. 279) -- Index (starting p. 285)
Summary
This book is a fresh and solidly documented study of U.S. postwar policy toward the reconstruction of European trade unions. Using Italy as a case study, Federico Romero demonstrates the weaknesses of the American strategy to reshape European societies in the likeness of American social pluralism. The United States sought postwar stability based on free trade, prosperity, and American security. In this scenario, Romero says, unions were to be independent of political parties, interested in wages, hours, and working conditions, and supportive of market capitalism. Mote precisely, the unions were to fit the AFL image, and Romero shows how the U.S. government cooperated with the AFL to support friendly anti-Communist unions. Romero exposes the shortcomings of a theory of modernization derived from the New Deal but deployed to support containment of communism. The high-wage postwar settlement in American industry could not be exported as a universal model, he concludes, because it depended on exceptional conditions enjoyed by the American economy in the 1940s and 1950s. This book is a translation of a study published in Italy in 1989 that was awarded the Walter Tobagi Prize.
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ISBN
0585025622 (electronic bk.)
9780585025629 (electronic bk.)
0807864196 (electronic bk.)
9780807864197 (electronic bk.)
0807820652 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807820650 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-283) and index.
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