REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LABOR

In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 310, S. 12-20

Abstract

Since WWII, the focus of power in the international labor movement is no longer in Europe. Events, in which US labor has played a signif role, have favored a definite trend toward decentralization & the strengthening of regional org's. This has been secured in part by the establishment of regional (Asian, European, Latin American) offices by international federations of unions in specific trades or industries, & in part by the creation of regional org's in Europe, the Americas, & Asia by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Some of the problems involved in these trends, the specific difficulties which face the extension of the movement to Africa, & the rivalry between the leading world confederations of labor, the ICFTU & the Communist World Federation of Trade Unions are discussed. AAAPSS.