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104 Fall 2020 – L22 – A 21st century international?

Decline of organized labor (Union)

Plans for humanity


- Another new plan for humanity coming out of history of work => actually an old plan
- Internationalism – during empire, Cold War, Neolib => surviving of workers around the
world unite
o Predates Soviet/Bolshevik revolution
o Internationalism suffered because of communism
o Comintern founded to spread internationalism => but by 1920s revolved around
securing gains of communism
- Post WWII
o Internationalism not associated with global trade unionism
o Global trade unionism => associated with nationalism
- Trade Union nationalism contributes to fall of internationalism and global divergence

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