Ambassadors of the Working Class

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In 1946 Juan Per n launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attach s at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country in history. A meatpacking union leader taught striking workers in Chicago about rising salaries under Per n. A railroad motorist joined the revolution in Bolivia. A baker showed Soviet workers the dai...Vis mer