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Author:   Rob McKenzie ,  Patrick Dunne
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9780745345628

ISBN 10:   074534562
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   20 February 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Photographs Series Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue PART I U.S. LABOR’S COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA 1. The Birth of AIFLD and the Coup in British Guiana 2. Labor’s Foreign Policy Contested and the Military Takeover in Brazil 3. AIFLD and the Battle of Chile 4. El Salvador, Nicaragua, and AIFLD’s Agenda for Central America PART II EL GOLPE 5. Mexico in the 1980s 6. U.S. Auto Companies Move South 7. The Coup 8. The Strike PART III TRACKING THE ASSASSINS 9. Detroit 10. St. Paul 11. Washington, DC Conclusion: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle Appendix: On the Home “Front” Photographs Notes Index

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'An impressive piece of sleuthing. Mckenzie's dogged search for answers shines a spotlight on AIFLD with its CIA links.' -- Anthony Carew, author of 'American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Detente' 'An in-depth study of the rot existing within the foreign policy leadership of the AFL-CIO. Expunging this rot is essential to the revitalization of the US labor movement' -- Kim Scipes, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University Northwest

'An impressive piece of sleuthing. Mckenzie's dogged search for answers shines a spotlight on AIFLD with its CIA links.' -- Anthony Carew, author of 'American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Detente'

Author Information

Rob McKenzie worked at the Twin City Ford Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota as an assembler, electrician and full-time union representative. In 1998 he became President of his United Auto Workers branch, and later was elected to the Minnesota State AFL-CIO Executive Board. Patrick Dunne is a graduate in History from the University of Cambridge, with a dissertation on ‘The AFL-CIO and the Coup against Allende’.

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