In Ambassadors of the Working Class, Semán uncovers a little-known chapter in the history of Juan Domingo Perón’s government and its labor supporters—the labor attaché program that assigned union activists to Argentina’s embassies. Using a transnational framework, Semán recounts the story of union men (only a handful of women participated in the program and none in the original cohort) recruited to serve in Argentina’s diplomatic corps, long a preserve of the country’s aristocratic families. The attachés were charged in the early, heady days of the program with propagandizing in favor of Perón’s Third Position and contesting American hegemony in Latin America, in an attempt to promote an alternative to U.S. liberal democracy. They established numerous international connections, especially in Latin America. They even garnered a degree of influence with certain Latin American labor groups that saw in Perón’s economic nationalism and social and labor reforms a possible model for...
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Summer 2018
June 01 2018
Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas
Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s
International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the
Americas
. By Ernesto
Semán
(Durham
, Duke
University Press
, 2017
) 314
pp. $94.95 cloth $26.95 paper
James
P. Brennan
James
P. Brennan
University of California, Riverside
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James
P. Brennan
University of California, Riverside
Online ISSN: 1530-9169
Print ISSN: 0022-1953
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The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2018
by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2018) 49 (1): 171–173.
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James P. Brennan; Ambassadors of the Working Class: Argentina’s International Labor Activists and Cold War Democracy in the Americas. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2018; 49 (1): 171–173. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01254
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