This edited collection is a global history of workers'
organisations since 1919, the year when the International Labour
Organisation (ILO), the Comintern and the International Federation
of Trade Unions were formed. This historical moment represents a
caesura in labour history as it epitomises the beginning of what
the editors and the contributors in this book call the
internationalisation of the labour question. The case studies in
this centenary volume analyse the relationship between global
workers' organisations and the new ideological confrontation
between liberal capitalism, socialism and communism since the
Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Workers' organisations, trade
unions in particular, grew in importance and managed to organise
internationally, forming alliances cemented by ideology and
sustained by international institutional bodies or centrals. In the
nascent capitalist versus communist struggle, trade unions thrived.
Is it mere coincidence that today's decline of unionism coincides
with the end of ideological antagonism? This book emphasises
important global labour issues such as gender as well as
international workers' histories from Latin America, Asia and
Africa.
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