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It is timely to observe how the end of the Cold War is affecting the world outside Europe, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean, where there is a turn toward a positive form of nationalism. During the Cold War, a defensive form of nationalism prevailed in Latin America and the Caribbean, as did a search for a third way between socialism and capitalism. The slump of the 1980s revealed the social and economic shortcomings of defensive nationalism and led to the end of the search for a third way. As a consequence, a new, more positive form of nationalism is emerging that has placed Latin America and the Caribbean at a decisive and unprecedented juncture in its development choices. One path may lead to a prosperous and democratic hemisphere, while the other could result in a slide back into depression and dictatorship.

A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives sent in 1881 a letter to the state Bureau of Statistics of Labor asking: "Why is it that the working people in Fall River are in constant turmoil when at Lowell and Lawrence they are quiet?" Subsequently the bureau conducted a massive inquiry (Massachusetts 1882: 195–415). It concluded that the main cause of the labor troubles in Fall River during the 1870s was the recent influx of British immigrant cotton workers who brought with them their Old Country tradition of labor militancy.