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Struggle and mutual aid : the age of worker solidarity / Nicolas Delalande ; translated from French by Anthony Roberts.
Lippincott Library HD4851 .D45 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delalande, Nicolas, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Lutte et l'entraide. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Working class--History.
- Working class.
- Labor movement--History.
- Labor movement.
- International cooperation--History.
- International cooperation.
- Solidarity--Political aspects.
- Solidarity.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 408 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Other Press LLC, [2023]
- Language Note:
- Text in English, translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "A dynamic historian revisits the workers' internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked. In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often set in opposition to the immobile and protectionist working classes. This view obscures a major historical fact: for around a century-from the 1860s to the 1970s-worker movements were at the cutting edge of internationalism. The creation in London of the International Workingmen's Association in 1864 was a turning point. What would later be called the "First International" aspired to bring together European and American workers across languages, nationalities, and trades. It was a major undertaking in a context marked by opening borders, moving capital, and exploding inequalities. In this urgent, engaging work, historian Nicolas Delalande explores how international worker solidarity developed, what it accomplished in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and why it collapsed over the past fifty years, to the point of disappearing from our memories"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The Nineteenth-Century Globalization
- The Making of Solidarity
- In Quest of Autonomy
- Moral Economy and Money
- Rediscovering Worker Internationalism
- pt. ONE THE YEARS OF EXPERIMENT
- 1. A Workers' State?
- The Credit of the IWA
- An Indebted, Secretive Organization
- The Hunt for Funds
- Reputation, Confidence, and Suspicion
- 2. Workers' Money
- The Emancipatory Power of Credit
- Accumulating Funds In "Resistance Societies"
- The Age of Subscriptions
- 3. Struggle and Mutual Aid
- The Early Strikes
- Years of Apprenticeship
- The Geography of Solidarity
- 4. The Pitfalls of Compassion
- Forms of Donation
- The Ordeal of the Commune
- Refugees Fending for themselves
- pt. TWO THE YEARS OF CONSOLIDATION
- 5. The Revival of Internationalism
- The Strength of Weak Ties
- The New Working Worlds
- 6. Solidarity and the Masses
- An International of Trades
- A Blueprint For Pan-European Syndicalism
- The Deployment of Solidarity
- 7. A Revolutionary Weapon?
- The Primacy of National Organizations
- The Spread of Socialism Worldwide
- Support for the Russian Revolution
- The General Strike: A Burning Issue
- Revolutionary Syndicalism in the USA
- The Rout of Anti-Militarism
- 8. Footprints and Legacies
- Competing Benefits
- Blurred Boundaries
- Global Struggle
- Bipolar Solidarities.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in French as La Lutte et l'entraide: L'Âge des solidarités ouvrières in 2019 by Éditions du Seuil, Paris"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Delalande, Nicolas. Struggle and mutual aid
- ISBN:
- 9781635420104
- 1635420105
- OCLC:
- 1347700294
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