TY - BOOK AU - Van der Linden,Marcel TI - American labor's global ambassadors: the international history of the AFL-CIO during the cold war SN - 978-1-349-47185-0 U1 - 331.88097309045 23E PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -