By Edmund F. Wehrle
Among a River and a Mountain info American labor's unusually advanced courting to the yank struggle in Vietnam. Breaking from the simplistic tale of "hard hat patriotism," Wehrle makes use of newly published archival fabric to illustrate the AFL-CIO's carrying on with commitment to social, political, and monetary reform in Vietnam. The complicated, occasionally turbulent, courting among American union leaders and their opposite numbers within the Vietnamese Confederation of work (known because the CVT) ended in harmful political compromises: the AFL-CIO finally permitted much-needed help for his or her Vietnamese actions from the CIA, whereas the CVT's have to maintain their courting with the americans lured them into entanglements with a succession of corrupt Saigon governments. even though the story's endpoint--the painfully divided and weakened exertions circulation of the 1970s--may be ordinary, Wehrle deals a completely new knowing of the ancient forces prime as much as that decline, unraveling his tale with significant sophistication and narrative skill."Stunning in its examine and complex in its research, among a River and a Mountain is without doubt one of the most sensible reviews we've got of work and the Vietnam War."--Robert okay. Brigham, Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor of historical past and diplomacy, Vassar College"Skillfully mixing diplomatic and hard work heritage, Wehrle's ebook is a priceless contribution to the ever-widening literature at the Vietnam War."--George Herring, college of Kentucky"Wehrle has written a compelling and unique research of the AFL-CIO, the South Vietnamese exertions flow and the Vietnam War."--Judith Stein, Professor of background, urban collage and Graduate university of town collage of latest York "With this crucial booklet, Edmund Wehrle supplies us the 1st full-fledged scholarly exam of prepared labor's dating to the Vietnam struggle. in response to deep examine in U.S. and overseas data, and awarded in transparent and swish prose, among a River and a Mountain provides greatly to our figuring out of the way the AFL-CIO approached the warfare and in flip used to be essentially altered by way of its staunch help for Americanization. neither is it purely an American tale that Wehrle tells, for he additionally provides interesting details at the Vietnamese Confederation of work and its sometimes-strained family with U.S. labor."--Fredrik Logevall, Cornell UniversityEdmund F. Wehrle is Assistant Professor of historical past, japanese Illinois collage.
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As the interrogation proceeded, Quy grew increasingly uneasy. He shared the same background and many of the supposed "crimes" of the defendant. He imagined the inadequate responses he would offer if the interrogators turned on him. "Why did you learn French? Why did you become a wealthy man? "37 As Buu and other nationalists broke from the Viet Minh, trade unionism was making its first concrete advances in Vietnam. 38 Between the end of World War II and the French return, the Viet Minh, briefly seizing control of Vietnam, had begun organizing workers into what it foresaw as "one big union," the Tong Lien Doan Lao Dong (TLD), modeled on the French Generale Confederation du Travail (CGT), France's largest labor federation.
Cat Hanh Long, a landlady at Dong-Bam plantation in Thai Nguyen Province. As the interrogation proceeded, Quy grew increasingly uneasy. He shared the same background and many of the supposed "crimes" of the defendant. He imagined the inadequate responses he would offer if the interrogators turned on him. "Why did you learn French? Why did you become a wealthy man? "37 As Buu and other nationalists broke from the Viet Minh, trade unionism was making its first concrete advances in Vietnam. 38 Between the end of World War II and the French return, the Viet Minh, briefly seizing control of Vietnam, had begun organizing workers into what it foresaw as "one big union," the Tong Lien Doan Lao Dong (TLD), modeled on the French Generale Confederation du Travail (CGT), France's largest labor federation.
68 Pivoting to accom modate shifting ground, CIO leaders scrambled to oust communists from their ranks rather than risk public repudiation. Quickly any connection to communism in organized labor became anathema. In San Francisco, at the 194 7 AFL convention, Secretary Treasurer Meany bitterly denounced United Mine Workers president john L. Lewis for his tolerance of commu nism while president of the CIO. Unlike Lewis, Meany crowed, "I was never a comrade to the comrades. "69 An intensely anticommunist wind blew through the labor movement-and through the country.