Book Description
Fourteen essays on the revolutionary syndicalist alternative in the workers' movement from the 1880s to World War II.
Author : Marcel van der Linden
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Fourteen essays on the revolutionary syndicalist alternative in the workers' movement from the 1880s to World War II.
Author : N. Papayanis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9400951558
This is apoliticalbiography ofAlphonseMerrheim, asignificant leader of the Conf6d6ration G6n6raledu Travail(CGT)intheyears between 1904 and 1923 and the most important member of the Federation of Metalworkers during the sameperiod. Hewas born inthe Nord in 1871 and becameaworkeratanearlyage, firstinmetallurgythanintextiles and finally once more in metalworking. In his ideologicalevolution hepassed through asocialistpoliticalpartyandthenconvertedtorevolutionarys- dicalism. In his peculiar fusion of theory and practice, Merrheim represented a form of revolutionary syndicalism that helps define the characteristics of that movement. He believed, alongwithother revo- tionary syndicalists, that one day a workers' general strike would ov- throw capitalism. But the syndicalist movement wouldpreparethat ev- tualitybystrengtheningtheworkersthrough socialreformsandbycreating their class consciousness through education. Merrheim, however, p- ticipatedsothoroughly intradeunionactivityandstudiedtheorganization of capitalistindustry so carefullythat he cametoemphasizetheprepa- tions for such a generalstrike much more than thestrikeitself. The test of his attitude cameon theeve of, during, and immediately afterWorld War I; for contrary tothe demands of certain militant and revolutionary workerswhobelievedthatthethreatofwar andthenthedislocationcaused by the war demanded a revolutionary response, Merrheim persistently stressedthe dangers ofsuch anaction before the adequatepreparation of the workers. Hissteadfast refusaleventorespondtothestrikeactions of some ofhisown metalworkers in 1919 indicates the central contradiction between hisrevolutionary theory and reformistpractice. This book examinesindetailMerrheim'sevolution fromarevolutionary to areformer. Insodoingit alsoshedslightonanequallysubstantialtopic, namely, howacertaintypeofworkerrespondedtoindustrializationinthe late nineteenth and earlytwentiethcenturies. Merrheim is an interesting figure, too, becauseofhispositioninthelabormovement, foritrepresents a unique focalpoint forthestudy oflaborhistory. Merrheim enteredthe Frenchlabormovement in the 1890s and remainedactiveinituntil 1923. During that periodhewas, successively, alocalunion leader, co-secretary xii of a nationallaborfederation, and animportant figurewithinthe CGT. Never thesecretary-generaloftheCGT, hewasneverthelesstheconfident of thesecretary-generalfrom 1909, L6on Jouhaux.
Author : Ralph Darlington
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1409479986
During the first two decades of the twentieth century, amidst an extraordinary international upsurge in strike action, the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism developed into a major influence within the world wide trade union movement. Committed to destroying capitalism through direct industrial action and revolutionary trade union struggle, the movement raised fundamental questions about the need for new and democratic forms of power through which workers could collectively manage industry and society. This study provides an all-embracing comparative analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the syndicalist movement in six specific countries: France, Spain, Italy, America, Britain and Ireland. This is achieved through an examination of the philosophy of syndicalism and the varied forms that syndicalist organisations assumed; the distinctive economic, social and political context in which they emerged; the extent to which syndicalism influenced wider politics; and the reasons for its subsequent demise. The volume also provides the first ever systematic examination of the relationship between syndicalism and communism, focusing on the ideological and political conversion to communism undertaken by some of the syndicalist movement's leading figures and the degree of synthesis between the two traditions within the new communist parties that emerged in the early 1920s.
Author : Ralph Darlington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608463305
Traces the entwined international legacy of revolutionary syndicalism and the communist movement. --From publisher description.
Author : James Arthur Estey
Publisher : London, King
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Syndicalism
ISBN :
Author : Lewis Levitzki Lorwin
Publisher : New York : Columbia university ; London : P.S. King & son
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Labor movement
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Author : Steven Hirsch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004188495
Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa,Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the first globalization and imperialism(1870/1930).
Author : J.R. Jennings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1349088765
An examination of syndicalist ideas in France from the 19th century until the 1960s. It looks at two groups of people: the militants who created and led the syndicalist movement at its height and the intellectuals who in the first decade of the 20th century outlined a distinct syndicalist ideology.
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Historical account of revolutionary syndicalism of the labour movement leadership in France during the period from 1890 to 1914 and trade union and employees attitude thereto - traces the origins and ideology of syndicalism, examines the patterns of strike activity in the period, personal issues and labour relations, workers' grievances, motivational factors, etc., and concludes that no significant number of French workers wanted either violence or revolutionary change. Bibliography pp. 159 to 164, references and statistical tables.
Author : Kenneth H. Tucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 1996-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521563598
Combines social (Habermas) and cultural theory with history of major union in early twentieth-century France.