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Contents:
Illustrations
Preface, Benedict Anderson
Rethinking Anarchism and Syndicalism: the colonial and post-colonial experience, 1870-1940, Lucien van der Walt and Steven J. Hirsch
PART ONE: 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, Anthony Gorman
Revolutionary syndicalism, communism and the national question in South African socialism, 1886-1928, Lucien van der Walt
Korean Anarchism before 1945: a regional and transnational approach, Dongyoun Hwang
Anarchism and the Question of Place: thoughts from the Chinese experience, Arif Dirlik
The Makhnovist Movement and the National Question in the Ukraine, 1917-1921, Аleksandr Shubin
Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism, and Nationalism in Ireland, Emmet O'Connor
PART TWO: ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD
Peruvian Anarcho-Syndicalism: adapting transnational influences and forging counterhegemonic Practices, 1905-1930, Steven J. Hirsch
Tropical Libertarians: anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s-1920s, Kirk Shaffer
Straddling the Nation and the Working World: anarchism and syndicalism on the docks and rivers of Argentina, 1900-1930, Geoffroy de Laforcade
Constructing Syndicalism and Anarchism Globally: the transnational making of the syndicalist movement in São Paulo, Brazil, 1895-1935, Edilene Toledo and Luigi Biondi
Final Reflections: the vicissitudes of anarchist and syndicalist trajectories, 1940 to the present, Steven J. Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt
Index
About the Author:
Steven J. Hirsch, PhD (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 Professor at Rhodes Unibersity, South Africa. Winner of the 2007 Labor History thesis prize, and the 2008/2009 CODESRIA Africa thesis prize, and co-author of Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism (AK Press. San Francisco) (with Michael Schmidt). Background in trade union education, the Workers' Library and Museum, the Anti-Privatisation Forum, and the National Health and Allied Workers Union.
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