Author: Francis L. CarstenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520045811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
War Against War
Author: Francis L. CarstenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520045811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Claiming the City
Author: Shelton StromquistPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1839767790
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
How workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic - and what the lessons are for today. For more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. At every turn propertied elites challenged their right to govern. Prominent US labor historian, Shelton Stromquist, offers the first global account of the origins of this new trans-local socialist politics. He explains how and why cities after 1890 became crucibles for municipal socialism. Drawing on the colorful stories of local activists and their social-democratic movements in cities as diverse as Broken Hill, Christchurch, Malmö, Bradford, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Hamilton, OH, the book shows how this new urban politics arose. Long governed by propertied elites, cities in the nineteenth century were transformed by mass migration and industrialization that tore apart their physical and social fabric. Amidst massive strikes and faced with epidemic disease, fouled streets, unsafe water, decrepit housing, and with little economic security and few public amenities, urban workers invented a local politics that promised to democratize cities they might themselves govern and reclaim the wealth they created. This new politics challenged the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements. Municipal socialist ideas have continued to inspire activists in their fight for the right of cities to govern themselves.
Centennial History of the Independent Labour Party
Author: James David JamesPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474469582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A History of the Independent Labour Party
Yale Historical Publications
Author: Rutgers University Studies in History
Author: Rutgers UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Transactions of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies
Author: The Summer Schools and Other Educational Acitivities of British Socialist Groups
Author: Joseph R. StarrPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Report of the ... Annual Conference of the Labour Party
Author: Labour Party (Great Britain). ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
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