Communist labor movements and their global entanglements in second half of the 20th century

20世纪下半叶的共产主义劳工运动及其全球纠葛

• 批准号: 435371988
• 负责人: Dr. Johanna Wolf
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Instituut voor Geschiedenis
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2019-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/435371988?language=en
• 关键词: Communist; labor; movements; their; global

The project reconstructs the mobilities of communist trade unionists as part of the global labor movement in the 20th century. The study thus maps if and how the networks of the communist trade unionists before and between the two world wars left a legacy during the beginning of the Cold War and decolonization. It aims to explore and identify the trade unionist´s different imaginaries of communism, their global networks and spaces of interaction. While the project profits from sociological and historical mobility studies about global migration, it reconstructs mobility driven by political agendas. The alleged immobility of the socialist camp has been challenged by studies, which reconstruct the transnational dynamics of mobile communist actors crossing the boundaries of the Soviet bloc as well as searching for contacts to the "West" and the "Global South". The purpose of this project is to reconstruct the plurality of mobilities of communist trade union activists in the second half of the 20th century, thus in two directions. Firstly, the entanglements between communist labor movements with those of the "West" are examined, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), its interactions with the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), as well as the engagement of the WFTU in the International Labor Organization (ILO). Secondly, the study traces encounters with and mobilities of communist trade union activists from the "Global South". The project will zoom in on two case studies: on India, because of the country’s longer tradition on labor movements, and its key role in the navigation of the bloc competition and of the non-alignment movement; and on Mexico, which has a peculiar position in the history of international communism, and for whose imaginaries the Mexican revolution of the 1910s and its aftermath has played an important role for communists.

该项目重建了共产主义工会成员的流动性，作为世纪全球劳工运动的一部分。因此，这项研究描绘了两次世界大战之前和之间的共产主义工会会员网络是否以及如何在冷战和非殖民化开始时留下遗产。它的目的是探索和确定工会主义者的不同的共产主义，他们的全球网络和互动空间。虽然该项目从全球移民的社会学和历史流动性研究中获益，但它重建了由政治议程驱动的流动性。社会主义阵营所谓的不动性受到研究的挑战，这些研究重新构建了移动的共产主义行为者跨越苏联集团边界以及寻求与“西方”和“全球南方”接触的跨国动态。本研究的目的是在两个方向上重建20世纪下半叶共产主义工会活动家的多元流动性。首先，共产主义工人运动与“西方”工人运动之间的纠缠被审查，世界工会联合会（WFTU），它与国际自由工会联合会（ICFTU）的互动，以及WFTU在国际劳工组织（ILO）的参与。第二，本研究追溯了与来自“全球南方”的共产主义工会积极分子的接触和流动情况。该项目将聚焦于两个案例研究：印度，因为该国在劳工运动方面有着悠久的传统，并且在集团竞争和不结盟运动的导航中发挥了关键作用;墨西哥，在国际共产主义历史上具有特殊地位，并且20世纪10年代的墨西哥革命及其后果对共产主义者发挥了重要作用。