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Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth provides a fresh account of the International Working Men's Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it. Although it split up in 1872, the IWMA played a ground-breaking part in the history of working-class internationalism. In our age of globalised capitalism, large labour migration, and rising nationalisms, much can be learnt from the history of the first international labour organisation. Contributors are: Fabrice Bensimon, Gregory Claeys, Michel Cordillot, Nicolas Delalande, Quentin Deluermoz, Marianne Enckell, Albert Garcia Balana, Samuel Hayat, Jurgen Herres, Francois Jarrige, Mathieu Leonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jurgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier.

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Author:   Fabrice Bensimon ,  Deluermoz Quentin ,  Jeanne Moisand
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   29
Weight:   0.001kg
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9789004335455

ISBN 10:   9004335455
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   22 March 2018
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction â Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz and Jeanne Moisand Part 1: Organisation and Debates 2 The IWMA and Its Precursors in London, c. 1830-1860 â Fabrice Bensimon 3 Little Local Difficulties? The General Council of the IWMA as an Arena for British Radical Politics â Detlev Mares 4 The IWMA and Industrial Conflict in England and France â Iorwerth Prothero 5 Transnational Solidarity in the Making Labour Strikes, Money Flows, and the First International, 1864-1872 â Nicolas Delalande 6 The IWMA, Workers and the Machinery Question (1864-1874) â Francois Jarrige 7 The IWMA and the Commune A Reassessment â Quentin Deluermoz Part 2: Global Causes and Local Branches 8 Global Values Locally Transformed The IWMA in the German States 1864-1872/76 â Jurgen Schmidt 9 The IWMA in Belgium (1865-1875) â Jean Puissant 10 The First International in Switzerland A Few Observations â Marc Vuilleumier 11 For Independent Poland and the Emancipation of the Working Class The Poles in the IWMA, 1864-1876 â Krzysztof Marchlewicz 12 Russians in the IWMA The Background â Woodford McClellan 13 The Italians and the IWMA â Carl Levy 14 1871 in Spain Transnational and Local History in the Formation of the FRE-IWMA â Albert Garcia-Balana 15 Revolutions, Republics and IWMA in the Spanish Empire (around 1873) â Jeanne Moisand 16 The First International in Latin America â Horacio Tarcus 17 Socialism v. Democracy? The IWMA in the USA, 1869-1876 â Michel Cordillot 18 Sectarian Secret Wisdom and Nineteenth-Century Radicalism The IWMA in London and New York â Antony Taylor Part 3: Actors and Ideologies 19 Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited â Jurgen Herres 20 The Construction of Proudhonism within the IWMA â Samuel Hayat 21 Professor Beesly, Positivism and the International The Patriotism Question â Gregory Claeys 22 Bringing Together Feminism and Socialism in the First International Four Examples â Antje Schrupp 23 Bakunin and the Jura Federation â Marianne Enckell 24 Carlo Cafiero and the International in Italy From Marx to Bakunin â Mathieu Leonard Appendix 1: The IWMA - A Brief Chronology Appendix 2: Membership Indexes

Reviews

The essays are well written and well documented. Of particular interest, especially to students of the larger Left, is Jurgen Herres's contribution, Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited, which provides a much-needed, post-Cold War perspective on the leading-but not authoritarian-figure of the First International during the first wave of globalization. Contributions on Latin American and US sections of the IWMA relieve the time-worn Eurocentrism of many past analyses, and one essay explores the roles and opportunities for women in the overwhelmingly male-dominated groups. In sum, the coverage is well rounded. J. A. Young, CHOICE, Vol. 56, No. 2 (2018)

Author Information

Fabrice Bensimon specialises in British History at Sorbonne Universite and is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research fellow at University College London. Quentin Deluermoz is Associate Professor in History at the University of Paris 13, Research Fellow at the Centre de recherches historiques (EHESS) and member of IUF. Jeanne Moisand is Associate Professor in History at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University - Paris 1 and member of the Centre d'histoire du XIXe siecle (Paris 1 - Paris 4).

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