Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the International Typographical Union

Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the International Typographical Union
Title Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the International Typographical Union PDF eBook
Author International Typographical Union
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Pages 570
Release 1873
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Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the International Typographical Union

Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the International Typographical Union
Title Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the International Typographical Union PDF eBook
Author International Typographical Union
Publisher
Pages 206
Release 1871
Genre Printing industry
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Includes the Union's Constitution.

Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Sessions of the National Typographical Union

Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Sessions of the National Typographical Union
Title Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Sessions of the National Typographical Union PDF eBook
Author National Typographical Union (U.S.)
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Pages 546
Release 1867
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Reports of Officers and Proceedings of the ... Session of the International Typographical Union

Reports of Officers and Proceedings of the ... Session of the International Typographical Union
Title Reports of Officers and Proceedings of the ... Session of the International Typographical Union PDF eBook
Author International Typographical Union
Publisher
Pages 1026
Release 1921
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All-American Anarchist

All-American Anarchist
Title All-American Anarchist PDF eBook
Author Carlotta Anderson
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 310
Release 2017-12-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0814343279

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All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850—1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. This engaging biography follows Labadie's colorful career from a childhood among a Pottawatomie tribe in the Michigan woods through his local and national involvement in a maze of late nineteenth-century labor and reform activities, including participation in the Socialist Labor party, Knights of Labor, Greenback movement, trades councils, typographical union, eight-hour-day campaigns, and the rise of the American Federation of Labor. Although he received almost no formal education, Labadie was a critical thinker and writer, contributing a column titled "Cranky Notions" to Benjamin Tucker's Liberty,the most important journal of American anarchism. He interacted with such influential rebels and reformers as Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, Henry George, Samuel Gompers, and Terence V. Powderly, and was also a poet of both protest and sentiment, composing more than five hundred poems between 1900 and 1920. Affectionately known as Detroit's "Gentle Anarchist," Labadie's flamboyant and amiable personality counteracted his caustic writings, making him one of the city's most popular figures throughout his long life despite his dissident ideals. His individualistic anarchist philosophy was also balanced by his conventional personal life - he was married to a devout Catholic and even worked for the city's water commission to make ends meet. In writing this biography of her grandfather, Carlotta R. Anderson consulted the renowned Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan, a unique collection of protest literature which extensively documents pivotal times in American labor history and radical history. She also had available a large collection of family scrapbooks, letters, photographs, and Labadie's personal account book. Including passages from Labadie's vast writings, poems, and letters, All-American Anarchist traces America's recurring anti-anarchist and anti-radical frenzy and repression, from the 1886 Haymarket bombing backlash to the Red Scares of the twentieth century.

The Yankee International

The Yankee International
Title The Yankee International PDF eBook
Author Timothy Messer-Kruse
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 336
Release 2000-11-09
Genre History
ISBN 0807863378

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Examining the social and intellectual collision of the American reform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstruction era, Timothy Messer-Kruse charts the rise and fall of the International Workingman's Association (IWA), the first international socialist organization. He analyzes what attracted American reformers--many of them veterans of antebellum crusades for abolition, women's rights, and other radical causes--to the IWA, how their presence affected the course of the American Left, and why they were ultimately purged from the IWA by their orthodox Marxist comrades. Messer-Kruse explores the ideology and activities of the Yankee Internationalists, tracing the evolution of antebellum American reformers' thinking on the question of wage labor and illuminating the beginnings of a broad labor reform coalition in the early years of Reconstruction. He shows how American reformers' priority of racial and sexual equality clashed with their Marxist partners' strategy of infiltrating trade unions. Ultimately, he argues, Marxist demands for party discipline and ideological unity proved incompatible with the Yankees' native republicanism. With the expulsion of Yankee reformers from the IWA in 1871, American Marxism was divorced from the American reform tradition.

Electoral Capitalism

Electoral Capitalism
Title Electoral Capitalism PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 232
Release 2020-08-14
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0812252365

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Vast fortunes grew out of the party system during the Gilded Age. In New York, party leaders experimented with novel ways to accumulate capital for political competition and personal business. Partisans established banks. They drove a speculative frenzy in finance, real estate, and railroads. And they built empires that stretched from mining to steamboats, and from liquor distilleries to newspapers. Control over political property—party organizations, public charters, taxpayer subsidies, and political offices—served to form governing coalitions, and to mobilize voting blocs. In Electoral Capitalism, Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer reappraises the controversy over wealth inequality, and why this period was so combustible. As ranks of the dispossessed swelled, an outpouring of claims transformed the old spoils system into relief for the politically connected poor. A vibrant but scorned culture of petty officeholding thus emerged. By the turn of the century, an upsurge of grassroots protest sought to dislodge political bosses from their apex by severing the link between party and capital. Examining New York, and its outsized role in national affairs, Broxmeyer demonstrates that electoral capitalism was a category of entrepreneurship in which the capture of public office and the accumulation of wealth were mutually reinforcing. The book uncovers hidden economic ties that wove together presidents, senators, and mayors with business allies, spoilsmen, and voters. Today, great political fortunes have dramatically returned. As current public debates invite parallels with the Gilded Age, Broxmeyer offers historical and theoretical tools to make sense of how politics begets wealth.