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Re-evaluating syndicalist opposition to the First World War
Get PDFIt has been argued that support for the First World War by the important French syndicalist organisation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) has tended to obscure the fact that other national syndicalist organisations remained faithful to their professed workers’ internationalism: on this basis syndicalists beyond France, more than any other ideological persuasion within the organised trade union movement in immediate pre-war and wartime Europe, can be seen to have constituted an authentic movement of opposition to the war in their refusal to subordinate class interests to those of the state, to endorse policies of ‘defencism’ of the ‘national interest’ and to abandon the rhetoric of class conflict. This article, which attempts to contribute to a much neglected comparative historiography of the international syndicalist movement, re-evaluates the syndicalist response across a broad geographical field of canvas (embracing France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Britain and America) to reveal a rather more nuanced, ambiguous and uneven picture. While it highlights the distinctive nature of the syndicalist response compared with other labour movement trends, it also explores the important strategic and tactical limitations involved, including the dilemma of attempting to translate formal syndicalist ideological commitments against the war into practical measures of intervention, and the consequences of the syndicalists’ subordination of the political question of the war to the industrial struggle
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No full textDavid Dubinsky: A Life with Labor. By David Dubinsky and A. H. Raskin. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1977. Pp. 351. $9.95.
No full textThe Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States. By Bruce E. Kaufman · Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1992. xv + 286 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $40.00. ISBN 0-87546-191-3.
No full textCarlos A. Schwantes, Radical Heritage: Labor, Socialism, and Reform in Washington and British Columbia, 1885–1914. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1979. 288 pp.
No full textIndustrial Workers of the World.
No full textFilmed from archival records of the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
Accompanied by a printed reel guide (xi, 52 p. ; 29 cm.) compiled by Martin Schipper.
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Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States
No full textCulture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States. By Clete Daniel. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 2001. x, 327 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3853-5, $39.95 (cloth)
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No full textLabor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II. By Andrew E. Kersten. New York: New York University Press, 2006. xiii + 273 pp. Index, notes, tables, illustrations. Cloth, $42.00. ISBN: 0-814-748786-8.
No full textNelson Lichtenstein and Howell John Harris, eds., Industrial Democracy in America: The Ambiguous Promise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ix + 293 pp. $44.95 cloth.
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