U.S. Labor Movement and Latin America: A History of Workers' Response to Intervention; Vol. I 1846-1919

by Philip S. Foner

Overview

This is history as it should be written: massive research and thorough documentation producing a story that tells itself. Recommended for academic history, labor, and Latin American studies collections. Choice

Foner's book is primarily valuable as a documentary record. It pays meticulous attention to the labour and socialist press of the time. . . . [A] worthy source of information. Latin America Connexions

This noted historian writes in his fluid style about the sometimes contradictory positions taken by the labor unions and socialists in response to American intervention in Central America (long before today's Contras), from the Mexican War of 1846 to the founding of the Pan-American Federation of Labor in 1918.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897891318
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/28/1988
Series:	Critical Studies in Work and Community Series
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

Table of Contents

Preface
The War with Mexico, 1846-1848
"Cuba Libre" and the War with Spain
The "New American Empire"
The U.S. Occupation of Cuba
U.S Rule in Puerto Rico
U.S. Intervention in Central America: Colombia, Panama, and Nicaragua
The Díaz Dictatorship: The Mexican Revolution 1
Overthrow of Díaz and the Baja California Episode: The Mexican Revolution 2
U.S. Intervention, 1911-1914: The Mexican Revolution 3
Carranza, Gompers, and the Mexican Labor Movement: The Mexican Revolution 4
The "Punitive Expedition" of 1916: The Mexican Revolution 5
Founding of the Pan-American Federation of Labor
Index