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More internationalism, more strength : the Unión General de Trabajadores in the International Labor Organization, 1919-1936
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- At the end of the First World War, Spain, which had stayed neutral all through the war, immediately joined those organizations created by the Treaty of Versailles, namely the League of Nations and the International Labor Organization (ILO). This article demonstrates that UGT used its international experience in the ILO to legitimate and reinforce its strategy for action in Spain, with a combination of pressure and negotiation very much in line with the labour reformism that prevailed in the most advanced circles of European trade unionism. At the same time, as this strategy brought the Spanish labour movement into line with its leading counterparts in the international milieu, it was also useful for isolating the more radical sector associated with the Third International and thus in favour of abandoning all commitments to organizations such as the League of Nations or the ILO, which it dismissively branded as allies of capitalism striving against the Bolshevik Revolution. This article attempts to show the cr
- ucial impact that the UGT's commitment in the ILO had in strengthening the reformist model of trade union action. [Publisher's Text].
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ISSN: 1594-3755
KEYWORDS
- Ugt, Ilo, reformism, Spanish labour movement, inter-war
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In this issue
- Introduction
- Spain's Unión General de Trabajadores in the international context (1888-1936)
- More internationalism, more strength : the Unión General de Trabajadores in the International Labor Organization, 1919-1936
- The Presence and Absence of Spanish Socialist Women in the International Trade Unions during the Interwar Period
- Survivre en France, exister à l'international : approche des relations entre l'Union Générale des Travailleurs (Ugt) en exil et les dirigeants deonfédération Générale du Travail (Cgt), 1944-1949
- Trade Unionism and Spain-Us Political Relations, 1945-1953
- La Uil e l'Ugt dal secondo dopoguerra all'ingresso della Spagna nella Cee.
- Interventisti con prudenza : la pubblicistica militare dall'inquieto dopoguerra libico al maggio del 1915
- La fuga dal recinto : la trincea e la follia
- Recensioni
- Notizie sugli autori