Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth: The First International in a Global Perspective

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-33545-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 404 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Studies in Global Social History

“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 Balaña, Samuel Hayat, Jürgen Herres, François Jarrige, Mathieu Léonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jürgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bensimon, Fabrice

Quentin, Deluermoz

Moisand, Jeanne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction
Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz and Jeanne Moisand

Part 1: Organisation and Debates
2 The IWMA and Its Precursors in London, c. 1830–1860
Fabrice Bensimon

3 Little Local Difficulties?
The General Council of the IWMA as an Arena for British Radical Politics
Detlev Mares

4 The IWMA and Industrial Conflict in England and France
Iorwerth Prothero

5 Transnational Solidarity in the Making
Labour Strikes, Money Flows, and the First International, 1864–1872
Nicolas Delalande

6 The IWMA, Workers and the Machinery Question (1864–1874)
François Jarrige

7 The IWMA and the Commune
A Reassessment
Quentin Deluermoz

Part 2: Global Causes and Local Branches
8 Global Values Locally Transformed
The IWMA in the German States 1864–1872/76
Jürgen Schmidt

9 The IWMA in Belgium (1865–1875)
Jean Puissant

10 The First International in Switzerland
A Few Observations
Marc Vuilleumier

11 For Independent Poland and the Emancipation of the Working Class
The Poles in the IWMA, 1864–1876
Krzysztof Marchlewicz

12 Russians in the IWMA
The Background
Woodford McClellan

13 The Italians and the IWMA
Carl Levy

14 1871 in Spain
Transnational and Local History in the Formation of the FRE-IWMA
Albert Garcia-Balañà

15 Revolutions, Republics and IWMA in the Spanish Empire (around 1873)
Jeanne Moisand

16 The First International in Latin America
Horacio Tarcus

17 Socialism v. Democracy?
The IWMA in the USA, 1869–1876
Michel Cordillot

18 “Sectarian Secret Wisdom” and Nineteenth-Century Radicalism
The IWMA in London and New York
Antony Taylor

Part 3: Actors and Ideologies
19 Karl Marx and the IWMA Revisited
Jürgen Herres

20 The Construction of Proudhonism within the IWMA
Samuel Hayat

21 Professor Beesly, Positivism and the International
The Patriotism Question
Gregory Claeys

22 Bringing Together Feminism and Socialism in the First International
Four Examples
Antje Schrupp

23 Bakunin and the Jura Federation
Marianne Enckell

24 Carlo Cafiero and the International in Italy
From Marx to Bakunin
Mathieu Léonard

Appendix 1: The IWMA – A Brief Chronology
Appendix 2: Membership
Indexes

Über Autor(innen)

Fabrice Bensimon specialises in British History at Sorbonne Université 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 Panthéon-Sorbonne University – Paris 1 and member of the Centre d’histoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1 – Paris 4).