American labor's global ambassadors : the international history of the AFL-CIO during the cold war / edited by Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. and Geert Van Goethem ; with foreword by Marcel van der Linden

Robert Anthony Waters, Jr. is visiting assistant professor of History at Ohio Northern University and on leave from Southern University at New Orleans where he is associate professor.

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.