Scipes, Kim (2010) AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
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This book is an in-depth look at the foreign policy program of the AFL-CIO. The book examines the AFL-CIO's foreign policy from three different perspectives. The first is from Labor's foreign policy leaders' positions, establishing three different types of overseas interventions: direct involvement in helping to overthrow democratically-elected governments; supporting labor movements established by dictatorships so as to preclude workers ever joining together to challenge the dictatorship; and indirectly supporting efforts by reactionary labor movements to overthrow democratically elected governments. This section includes case studies of each of these types of operations, in Chile in the early 1970s; in the Philippines in mid- to late-1980s; and in Venezuela in the early 2000s, each an example of one of the three types of interventions respectively.
The second section (Chapter 3) looks at efforts by US labor activists to challenge this AFL-CIO foreign policy program, especially under John Sweeney. The third section (Chapter 4) looks at US Government efforts to incorporate Labor's foreign policy operations under its umbrella. The book is summed up in a fifth chapter, and confirms the charge of this being, in fact, labor imperialism, and establishes this theoretically, based on the work of Dutch scholar Jan Nederveen Pieterse. It suggests ideas for future research about why labor leaders would engage in labor imperialism. It also argues that findings cannot be explained by using structural-based theories, but calls for the development of a processural-based paradigm and related theories.
