Erken soğuk savaş dönemi amerikan dış politikasında işçi sendikaları: Marshall Planı ve Türk-Amerikan endüstriyrl ilişkileri, 1945-1955

American foreign policy, parallel to the rise of the working class as of the 1860s, hasincluded a new policy actor: labor. Likewise, in the aftermath of World War II and emergenceof bipolar world, the United States of America actively made use of labor unions and renderedit an intrinsic Cold War value.This thesis describes America?s use of labor tool in its struggle against communismafter providing a general account of labor movement and its role in American foreign policymaking, through descriptive history method.Major objective of the United States was to redress Europe through military andeconomic aid vis-Ã -vis the specter of communism, to secure the periphery and contain theU.S.S.R. The road map of this new American global strategy became a monolithic one withthe Marshall Plan and indoctrinated with the Truman Doctrine, which also included the laborelement.The thesis will analyze the significant role that labor in the U.S. foreign policy, shapedwith American exceptionalism; its development and support for the anti-communism policies.The reason why this thesis has been written is that there is no written source elaboratingTurkish-American industrial relations from the perspective of Cold War. With this end, bymaking use of comparative history method, Turkish industrial relations case is studied toillustrate the know-how assistance and ideology trade-off of America to Turkish labor unions,which highlights the importance ascribed by the U.S.A. to labor as a foreign policycomponent.Keywords: the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, foreign policy labor, industrialrelations, Cold War, Turkish-American Relations, Irving Brown,.