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Study Group on International Labor and Working Class History: Annual Meeting

The Study Group sponsored a panel and business meeting on December 28, 1980 at the AHA convention in Washington. D.C. Four speakers addressed the theme, "The Status of Organized Labor Since World War II and the Prospects for the Future." Mike Hanagan of Vanderbilt University noted the tendency throughout the 20th century in France for labor unions to exchange job control for political reform, which has led trade union officials to depend upon bureaucratic alliances rather than mass organization. The events of May 1968, he suggested, marked the coming of age of highly skilled white collar workers and the decade since then has witnessed the attempted coalition between Communist and Socialist forces of their respective constituencies in the traditional and new working class. Daniel James, of the University of Brazilia, spoke on Latin America—specifically Argentina, Chile and Brazil. Terming the immediate post-war years a period of capital formation in these countries, marked by populist multi-class movements, he stated that the tensions within that alliance during the 1950s resulted in a more hostile governmental attitude towards labor organizations. While prospects are not good for traditional labor activity in the near future, James did stress the possibilities inherent in the changing priorities of the working class as it attempts to address the pervasive social and political problems of their societies.