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Public Opinion and Early Press Coverage of the ILO Public Opinion and Early Press Coverage of the ILO
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The ILO and the Intersection of Class, Diaspora, and Isolationist Politics in 1919 The ILO and the Intersection of Class, Diaspora, and Isolationist Politics in 1919
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The African American Diaspora, Pan-Africanism, and the Debate Over the Treaty The African American Diaspora, Pan-Africanism, and the Debate Over the Treaty
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The ILO Conference The ILO Conference
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The International Congress of Working Women The International Congress of Working Women
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The Debate in Congress The Debate in Congress
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Conclusion Conclusion
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7 U.S. Labor Irreconcilables and Reservationists and the Founding ILO Conference in Washington, D.C., November 1919
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Published:October 2013
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Abstract
This chapter examines the debate over U.S. membership in the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization (ILO) as the ILO founding conference took place in Washington, D.C., in November 1919. It considers the importance of the International Congress of Working Women and African Americans from Leftist groups in shaping the debate over the ILO in the United States. In particular, it explores how a unique confluence of class, diaspora, race, and isolationist politics in the United States drove many centrist labor and moderate Left groups to adopt “irreconcilable” or harshly reservationist positions on the question of U.S. participation in the League and ILO. It also discusses Republican Senator Robert LaFollette's attack on the ILO in Congress and suggests that the debate over the ILO is illustrative of the role of economic considerations and ideas about the racialized division of labor in shaping Congressional responses to Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy programs in 1919.
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