Italian Workers Of The World

by Gabaccia, Donna R.; Ottanelli, Fraser M.

• ISBN13: 9780252072574
• ISBN10: 025207257X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-27
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

Offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on the experiences of Italian workers on foreign soil, Italian Workers of the World explores the complex links between international class formation and nation building. Distinguished by an international panel of contributors, this wide-ranging volume examines how the reception of immigrants in their new countries shaped their sense of national identity and helped determine the nature of the multiethnic states in which they settled.Donna R. Gabaccia, Mellon Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, is the author of Militants and Migrants: Rural Sicilians Become American Workers and other books. Fraser M. Ottanelli, an associate professor of history at the University of South Florida, is the author of The Communist Party in the United States: From the Depression to World War II.A volume in the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series, edited by Jon Gjerde and Vicki L. Ruiz

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Class, exile, and nationalism at home and abroad : the Italian risorgimento	p. 21
Programs and politics of the first Italian elite of Buenos Aires, 1852-80	p. 41
La Patria degli Italiani and social conflict in early-twentieth-century Argentina	p. 63
Migrants, farmers, and workers : Italians in the land of Ceres	p. 79
"Wherever we work, that land is ours" : the Italian anarchist press and working-class solidarity in Sao Paulo	p. 102
Radical ethnic brokers : immigrant socialist leaders in the United States between ethnic community and the larger society	p. 121
The Lawrence strike : the possibilities and limitations of Italian American syndicalist transnationalism	p. 139
Italian antifascism and the Garibaldine tradition in Latin America	p. 163
"If fascism comes to America we will push it back into the ocean" : Italian American antifascism in the 1920s and 1930s	p. 178
"Over the years people don't know" : Italian Americans and African Americans in Harlem in the 1930s	p. 196
Antifascist resistance in France from the "phony war" to the liberation : identity and destinies in question	p. 214
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