Anti-Communist Solidarity: US-Brazilian Labor Relations During the Dictatorship in Cold-War Brazil (1964-1985)

Larissa Rosa Corrêa

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Anti-Communist Solidarity

US-Brazilian Labor Relations During the Dictatorship in Cold-War Brazil (1964-1985)

Larissa Rosa Corrêa

Volume 12 in the series Work in Global and Historical Perspective

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110732917

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Since the 1960s, many influential Latin Americans, such as the leaders of student movements and unions, and political authorities, participated in exchange programs with the United States to learn about the American way of life. In Brazil, during the international context of the Cold War, when Brazil was governed by a military dictatorship ruled by generals who alternated in power, hundreds of union members were sent to the United States to take union education courses. Did they come back “Americanized” and able to introduce American trade unionism in Brazil? That is the question this book seeks to answer. It is a subject that is as yet little explored in the history of Latin American labor and international relations: the influence of foreign union organizations on national union politics and movements. Despite the US’s investment in advertising, courses, films and trips offered to Brazilian union members, most of them were not convinced by the American ideas on how to organize an “authentic” union movement – or, at least, not committed to applying what they learned in the States.

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Larissa Rosa Corrêa, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Foreword to the Brazilian Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Acronyms Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter I. The development of the AFL-CIO’s international policy in Brazil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter II. “What is good for the United States is good for Brazil” (1964–1967) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter III. “Americanos, Go Home!”: From a Policy of Alignment to Diplomatic Cooling (1967–1970) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter IV. Between Tourism and Union Education: Travelers’ Views Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Chapter V. Conflicts, Interests and Alliances between Brazilian and American Unionists: From the “Economic Miracle” to the “Years of Lead” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars of social/labour history, anthropology, sociology, students
Pages
- Front matter: 15
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Trade-unionism; AFL-CIO; AIFLD; Brazilian dictatorship

eBook

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110732917

Hardcover

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110737745