"Arise ye wretched of the earth" : : the First International in a global perspective / / edited by Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz, Jeanne Moisand.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bensimon, Fabrice.; Deluermoz, Quentin.; Moisand, Jeanne, 1978-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Global Social History 29.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (404 pages)

“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas. The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it. Although it split up in 1872, the IWMA played a ground-breaking part in the history of working-class internationalism. In our age of globalised capitalism, large labour migration, and rising nationalisms, much can be learnt from the history of the first international labour organisation. Contributors are: Fabrice Bensimon, Gregory Claeys, Michel Cordillot, Nicolas Delalande, Quentin Deluermoz, Marianne Enckell, Albert Garcia Balaña, Samuel Hayat, Jürgen Herres, François Jarrige, Mathieu Léonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jürgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction / Fabrice Bensimon , Quentin Deluermoz and Jeanne Moisand -- Organisation and Debates -- The iwma and Its Precursors in London, c. 1830–1860 / Fabrice Bensimon -- Little Local Difficulties? / Detlev Mares -- The iwma and Industrial Conflict in England and France / Iorwerth Prothero -- Transnational Solidarity in the Making / Nicolas Delalande -- The iwma, Workers and the Machinery Question (1864–1874) / François Jarrige -- The iwma and the Commune / Quentin Deluermoz -- Global Causes and Local Branches -- Global Values Locally Transformed / Jürgen Schmidt -- The iwma in Belgium (1865–1875) / Jean Puissant -- The First International in Switzerland / Marc Vuilleumier -- For Independent Poland and the Emancipation of the Working Class / Krzysztof Marchlewicz -- Russians in the iwma / Woodford McClellan -- The Italians and the iwma / Carl Levy -- 1871 in Spain / Albert Garcia-Balañà -- Revolutions, Republics and iwma in the Spanish Empire (around 1873) / Jeanne Moisand -- The First International in Latin America / Horacio Tarcus -- Socialism volume Democracy? / Michel Cordillot -- “Sectarian Secret Wisdom” and Nineteenth-Century Radicalism / Antony Taylor -- Actors and Ideologies -- Karl Marx and the iwma Revisited / Jürgen Herres -- The Construction of Proudhonism within the iwma / Samuel Hayat -- Professor Beesly, Positivism and the International / Gregory Claeys -- Bringing Together Feminism and Socialism in the First International / Antje Schrupp -- Bakunin and the Jura Federation / Marianne Enckell -- Carlo Cafiero and the International in Italy / Mathieu Léonard.