“The formation of the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) marked a high point in the world working-class movement . . . the last chance for a worldwide social transformation created by the working class,” argues Victor Silverman in Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939–1949 (13). While it is difficult to share Silverman's sanguine view of the world federation, which was created with high hopes by Soviet, American (Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]), and British organized labor in 1945 only later to come solidly under the control of the communist bloc, his study offers a fascinating and sophisticated account of foreign policies perspectives among both elite and rank and file trade unionists and their efforts to shape the post-war world.