The Internationalisation of the Labour Question

Chapter 1 1919 and the Century of Labour Internationalisation

Chapter 2 Global Union Organisations, 1889–2019: The Weight of History and the Challenges of the Present

Chapter 3 The Guest Who Invited Himself: The International Free Trade Union Movement During and Between the Two World Wars

Chapter 4 Woman’s Labours and the Definition of the Worker: Legacies of 1919

Chapter 5 Framing Working Women’s Rights Internationally: Contributions of the IFTU Women’s International

Chapter 6 The Labour and Socialist International and ‘the Colonial Problem’: Mobilisation by Necessity or Force, 1925–1928

Chapter 7 ‘Unite in International Solidarity!’ The Call of the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers to ‘Colonial’ and ‘Negro’ Seamen in the Early 1930s

Chapter 8 Working Class Politics and Labour Internationalism in Latin America: An Overview of Labour International Organisations in the Region During the Interwar Period (1919–1939)

Chapter 9 Beyond International Solidarity: The US Anti-communist Labour Policy in Brazil During the Cold War

Chapter 10 ‘Whenever Society Is in Travail Liberty Is Born’: The Mass Strike of 1919 in Colonial Trinidad

Chapter 11 The International Labour Organization as a Domesticating Arena: Argentinian Trade Unions and Workers’ Representations at the ILO in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 12 Strange Bedfellows but Not for Long: The Industrial Workers of the World and the Communist International

Chapter 13 The International Labour Organization and the Labour Question in Republican China, 1919–1938

Chapter 14 United to Struggle or Struggling to Unite: Growth and Diversification of the Indian Labour Movement

Chapter 15 Transnational Activism and Equal Remuneration in India During the Twentieth Century

Chapter 16 The Ascent of African Labour Internationalism: Trade Unions, Cold War Politics and the ILO, 1919–1960

Chapter 17 The Struggle for Legitimacy: South Africa’s Divided Labour Movement and International Labour Organisations, 1919–2019

Chapter 18 Labour Internationalism in Context Small and Large