Elizabeth McKillen. Making the World Safe for Workers: Labor, the Left, and Wilsonian Internationalism

Myriad works detail the impact of Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy on both the United States and the wider world, though none so far has considered its relationship with the US Left. Making the World Safe for Workers is Elizabeth McKillen’s ambitious attempt to fill this gap in the Wilsonian discours...

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Published in:European journal of American studies 2015-02
Main Author: Williams, Tomos Ifan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Foreign policy
Gompers, Samuel (1850-1924)
Industrial democracy
Labor history
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
Working class
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Summary:Myriad works detail the impact of Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy on both the United States and the wider world, though none so far has considered its relationship with the US Left. Making the World Safe for Workers is Elizabeth McKillen’s ambitious attempt to fill this gap in the Wilsonian discourse, in which she argues that despite Wilson believing cooperation between US and international labour movements to be “critical” to the success of his vision, excepting the core of the American Fede...
ISSN:1991-9336
1991-9336
DOI:10.4000/ejas.10454