The United States and the European Trade Union Movement, 1944-1951. Federico Romero , Harvey Fergusson IIInternational Labour and the Origins of the Cold War. Denis MacShane

1995 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 390-393
Author(s):  
Anthony Daley
1994 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 335
Author(s):  
Frank Costigliola ◽  
Federico Romero ◽  
Harvey Fergusson II

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 264
Author(s):  
Chiarella Esposito ◽  
Federico Romero ◽  
Harvey Fergusson II

Author(s):  
Shelton Stromquist ◽  
Greg Patmore

Comparative history provides an opportunity for scholars to move beyond national boundaries and reflect on their own societies in new light. But such comparisons are not always straightforward. While both Australia and the United States have federal governments, the state played a more coercive role against organized labor and radicals in the United States than in Australia. Several factors softened the impact of the state on labor in Australia: a stronger trade union movement, the formation of labor parties, and a political consensus on regulating industrial relations at least until the 1980s. In the United States, unbridled hostility of large corporations toward organized labor governed state policy. Despite these differences, labor in both countries found political space to promote progressive policies and modify the harsh behavior of governments....


2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 801-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon Barkin

Reviewing the industrial unrest of the last three years in Western Europe and the United States, the author describes and analyses the new trends in the trade-union movement to cope with such a new situation.


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