Agents of the Revolution
Agents of the Revolution

Author: Kevin Morgan

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9783039100750

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Using Comintern archives, oral interviews and a wide range of other sources, this collection presents a sample of some of the exciting new work currently being produced in the field of communist biography. Geographically, the contributions take in North America and New Zealand as well as a range of European countries. Some chapters focus on individuals like Clara Zetkin, William Z. Foster, Umberto Terracini, William Gallacher or Jozsef Pogány. Others adopt a collective approach to explore communist cultures in rural Austria or the Netherlands, or the impact of institutions like the International Lenin School. There are also chapters on communist institutional biographies, the role of general secretaries and the significance of generations and family links.

Socialism and American Life, Volume II
Socialism and American Life, Volume II

Author: Donald Drew Egbert

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 1400879892

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"Easily the most comprehensive and useful work on American socialism, including its history, theories, and impact on life, culture, and economic and political parties in the United States.... Volume 2, bibliography, is as important a contribution as the essays. Hereafter, students of practically all phases of American life will turn to it for help and guidance."—U.S. Quarterly Book Review. Originally published in 1952. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Industrial Unionism
Industrial Unionism

Author: WILLIAM Z. FOSTER

Publisher:

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 9780359183418

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William Z. Foster, one of the earliest speakers and organizers with I.W.W. He was a leader of the Communist Party in America and writes from a first-hand knowledge of the role Industrial Unionism plays in our lives for workers rights. All forces of labor throughout the trade union movement should be united to reject the suspension order and preserve the unity and progress of the trade union movement. No man living today can speak with more authority on the industrial union question than Foster. He was a pioneer in the fight for the industrial form of organization since 1900. In the CarmenÕs Union in Chicago, among the packing-house workers and as leader of the Great 1919 Steel Strike and hundreds of labor struggles throughout the country during his years of courageous and militant organizing, Foster was always the leader in the industrial union fight. This classic reprint from 1936 is still just as valuable as it was then.

History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out

Author: James R. Barrett

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0822372851

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In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities. Concerned with carving out space for individuals in the story of the working class, Barrett examines all aspects of individuals' subjective experiences, from their personalities, relationships, and emotions to their health and intellectual pursuits. Barrett's subjects include American communists, "blue-collar cosmopolitans"—such as well-read and well-traveled porters, sailors, and hoboes—and figures in early twentieth-century anarchist subculture. He also details the process of the Americanization of immigrant workers via popular culture and their development of class and racial identities, asking how immigrants learned to think of themselves as white. Throughout, Barrett enriches our understanding of working people’s lives, making it harder to objectify them as nameless cogs operating within social and political movements. In so doing, he works to redefine conceptions of work, migration, and radical politics.

Trade Union Growth, Structure and Policy
Trade Union Growth, Structure and Policy

Author: H. A. Turner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-29

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1000580180

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First published in 1962, Trade Union Growth, Structure and Policy starts with the long history of the textile unions and their remarkable structures and techniques. By comparing these unions to each other and to other key unions, Professor Turner explores those major problems in the development and contemporary position of trade unionism which are of public interest. He reappraises the general theory of the labour movement’s evolution and is able to show that, what are essentially modern unions have existed longer than has been realized and also that ‘unofficial’ movements often repeat the pattern of very early unionism. A detailed comparison and contrast of modern unions reveals that they fall into a greater number of different types and are subject to a greater diversity of influences than is generally supposed both in formal government and in effective democracy. The author assesses the factors which have in the past have brought about a major change in trade unions and the likelihood of major changes in the future. This book is an important historical document for scholars and researchers of labour movement, labour economics and political economy.