The Tragedy of European Labor 1918-1939 / Adolf Sturmthal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sturmthal, Adolf Fox, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1943]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents a theory of the European Labor movement from 1918-1939, while taking into account the fact that European labor has grown up in a society where democratic compromise was lacking and the feudal tradition of a hierarchical society allocated to everyone a distinct status.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface to the Second Printing

Preface

Contents

Part I. Why Labor Failed

1. Pressure Group or Political Action

2. From Revolutionary Party to Pressure Group

3. Leninism

Part II. The Failure of a Revolution

4. Herman Müller - Paradigm of the German Worker

5. The Socialists and the Revolution

6. The Stabilization of the Middle-Class Republic

Part III. Labor in the Great Depression

7. "Doctor or Heir"

8. British Labor Blunders Through

9. German Labor's "Toleration" Policy

10. The Failure of the French New Deal

11. Swedish Labor's Success

Part IV. The Rise of Fascism

12. The Emergence of Fascism: Italy

13. A Fascist Defeat: Austria

14. Hitler Wins

15. The Cannon of February

16. New Labor Tactics: Neo-Socialism and Labor Plans

Part V. Fascism on the International Scene

17. Socialist Foreign Policy and Fascism

18. The Popular Front

19. War in Spain

20. Labor's Road to Munich

21. Into the Abyss

Part VI. Outlook

22. The Underground Movement

23. A New Opportunity

Bibliographical Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89787-1

OCLC:

1100450756