Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940

by Hirsch, Steven; Van Der Walt, Lucien

• ISBN13: 9789004188495
• ISBN10: 9004188495
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

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 Biography

Steven Hirsch, Ph D. (1997) in Latin American History from The George Washington University. Currently is associate professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg. Researches and writes on the history of anarchism and working-class politics in Peru. Lucien Van Der Walt, Ph.d. (2007) in Industrial Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand, is senior lecturer in Sociology at that institution. Winner of the 2007 Labor History thesis prize, and the 2008/2009 Codesria Africa thesis prize, he is co-author of Black Flame the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism (AK Press San Francisco), volume 1 of Counter Power new perspectives on global anarchism and syndicalism (with Michael Schmidt)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Rethinking Anarchism and Syndicalism: the colonial and postcolonial experience, 1870-1940	p. xxxi
Anarchism And syndicalism In The Colonial World
"Diverse in race, religion and nationality.. .but united in aspirations of civil progress": the anarchist movement in Egypt 1860-1940	p. 3
Revolutionary Syndicalism, Communism and the National Question in South African socialism, 1886-1928	p. 33
Korean Anarchism before 1945: a regional and transnational approach	p. 95
Anarchism and the Question of Place: thoughts from the Chinese experience	p. 131
The Makhnovist Movement and the National Question in the Ukraine, 1917-1921	p. 147
Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism, and Nationalism in Ireland	p. 193
Anarchism And Syndicalism In The Postcolonial World
Peruvian Anarcho-Syndicalism: adapting transnational influences and forging counterhegemonic practices, 1905-1930	p. 227
Tropical Libertarians: anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s-1920s	p. 273
Straddling the Nation and the Working World: anarchism and syndicalism on the docks and rivers of Argentina, 1900-1930	p. 321
Constructing Syndicalism and Anarchism Globally: the transnational making of the syndicalist movement in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1895-1935	p. 363
Final Reflections: the vicissitudes of anarchist and syndicalist trajectories, 1940 to the present	p. 395
Index	p. 413
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