Labor Internationalism: U.S. involvement in Brazilian unions, 1945-1964

Abstract

This article discusses United States influence inside the brazilian trade unions and in the labor ministry between 1945 and 1965. It analyzes the growth of U.S. involvement during these years as a result of interests associated with early cold War worries about communist advances in latin america and the imperial objectives of controlling the hemisphere, partially through the exportation of U.S. political values and institutional styles, the so called “american way of life”, that ironically became easier to implant once the military took power in 1964.