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- Title
American Labor Education Service International Education Project: 1951--61.
- Authors
Cohen, Doris P.
- Abstract
This article presents information on the American Labor Education Service (ALES). From 1951 through 1961, much of ALES' endeavors were concentrated on international affairs. Largely financed through the Fund for Adult Education, ALES worked with unions to introduce their members to the international world of which they were citizens. When ALES initiated its international education project in 1951, American labor had assumed a position of responsibility and involvement in foreign affairs. Most of this activity occurred at the federation level and among the chief echelons of a few national unions. One objective of ALES' project was to contribute to the growth of a spirit of internationalism among American workers. ALES wrote that it desired to develop the ability of unionists to "take an active part in cooperating with the Free Trade Union movement in the world to bring about a peaceful world community with political and industrial democracy for all." In effect, ALES was extending its democratic philosophy to the world at large and envisioning goals such as peaceful coexistence, economic cooperation, and social justice.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LABOR unions; EMPLOYEE participation in management; LABOR unions &; education; SOCIAL justice; INTERNATIONALISM; INTELLECTUAL cooperation; INTERNATIONAL cooperation
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 1979, Vol 4, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article