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Ambassadors of the Working Class – Argentina`s International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas

Autor Ernesto Semán
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In 1946 Juan Pern launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attach's at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country in history. A meatpacking union leader taught striking workers in Chicago about rising salaries under Pern. A railroad motorist joined the revolution in Bolivia. A baker showed Soviet workers the daily caloric intake of their Argentine counterparts. As Ambassadors of the Working Class shows, the attach's' struggle against US diplomats in Latin America turned the region into a Cold War battlefield for the hearts of the working classes. In this context, Ernesto Semn reveals, for example, how the attach's' brand of transnational populism offered Fidel Castro and Che Guevara their last chance at mass politics before their embrace of revolutionary violence. Fiercely opposed by Washington, the attach's' project foundered, but not before US policymakers used their opposition to Peronism to rehearse arguments against the New Deal's legacies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822369059
ISBN-10: 0822369052
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. From the Fringes of the Nation to the World 1
1. In Search of Social Reform 23
2. "The Argentine Problem" 44
3. Apostles of Social Revolution 68
4. From the Belly of the Beasts 102
5. At the Turn of the Tide 132
6. Political Declension 166
7. A Bitter Pill 193
Conclusion. Branding Mass Politics in the Americas 219
Notes 233
Bibliography 287
Index 311

Notă biografică

Historian Ernesto Semán is Assistant Professor at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond and the author of five previous books, which include novels and political essays.

Descriere

In the story of Argentina's diplomatic worker attaches dispatched to further Peronism, organized labor became a crucial aspect in defining democracy and perceptions of social justice, freedom, and sovereignty in the Americas.