Strikes, Wars, and Revolutions in an International Perspective: Strike Waves in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

by Edited by Leopold H. Haimson , Charles Tilly

• ISBN13: 9780521352857
• ISBN10: 0521352851
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1989-07-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The contributions to this volume are concerned with the patterns of continuity and change in industrial labour conflicts in major industrialized countries before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. The articles have been conceived as part of a series of efforts to assist the further development of comparative labour history, and in particular the application of quantitative techniques to the analysis of industrial labour conflicts in comparative perspective. The intensive examination of strike waves in the volume offers a nuanced critique of economic models of strike activities. Political and organizational explanations come in for trenchant analysis as well.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. Introduction: 1. Theories and realities Charles Tilly

2. The historical setting in Russia and the West Leopold H. Haimson

Part II. Models and Realities: 3. Introduction Leopold H. Haimson and Eric Brian

4. Changing forms of labor conflict: secular development or strike waves? Friedhelm Boll

5. Strikes and power in Britain, 1870-1920 James E. Cronin

6. Two strike waves in Imperial Russia, 1905-1907, 1912-1914 Leopold H. Haimson and Ronald Petrusha

7. Strikers in revolution: Russia, 1917 Diane Koenker and William G. Rosenberg

8. Strikes in Imperial Russia, 1895-1913: a quantitative analysis V. I. Bovykin, L. I. Borodkin and Y. I. Kiryanov

9. Labor conflicts in Italy before the rise of fascism, 1881-1923: a quantitative analysis Lorenzo Bordogna, Gian Primo Cella and Giancarlo Provasi

10. Strikes and politics in the United States, 1900-1919 P. K. Edwards

Part III. Workers in Metal-Processing Enterprises in Comparative Perspective: 11. From the mechanic to the metallo Michelle Perrot

12. Strikes of machinists in the United States, 1870-1922 David Montgomery

13. The political economy of British engineering workers during the First World War Keith Burgess

14. The rationalization of class struggle

strikes and strike strategy of the German Metalworkers' Union, 1891-1922 Elisabeth Domansky

15. Scientific management and the changing nature of work in the St. Petersburg metalworking industry, 1900-1914 Heather Hogan

16. Structural processes of change and changing patterns of labor unrest: the case of the metal-processing industry in Imperial Russia, 1890-1914 Leopold H. Haimson

17. Social characteristics, attitudes, and patterns of strike behaviour of metalworkers in Italy during the First World War Bruno Bezza

Part IV: The Effects of Short-Term Variation: 18. Introduction Charles Tilly

19. Economic cycles and labor conflicts in Germany during the first quarter of the twentieth century Friedhelm Boll

20. The crisis of state and society in Britain, 1917-1922 James E. Cronin

21. Strikes and the war Hugues Lagrange

22. Labor unrest in Imperial Russia on the eve of the First World War: the roles of conjunctural phenomena, events, and individual and collective actors Leopold H. Haimson

23. Strikes in Russia, 1917

the impact of revolution Diane Koenker and William G. Rosenberg

Part V. Conclusion: 24. Conclusion Leopold H. Haimson.