Transnational Cigar-Makers: Cross-Border Labour Markets, Strikes, and Solidarity at the Time of the First International (1864–1873)

Knotter, Ad

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“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth”. The First International in a Global Perspective. Ed. by Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz, and Jeanne Moisand. [Studies in Global Social History, Vol. 29.] Brill, Leiden [etc.] 2018. xiv, 404 pp. Ill. € 140.00; $168.00. (E-book: Open Access). - Nicolas Delalande. La lutte et l'entraide. L’âge des solidarités ouvrières. [L'univers historique.] Editions du Seuil, Paris2019. 361 pp. € 24.00.

Knotter

2019

Int Rev of Soc His

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DELALANDE, NICOLAS. La lutte et l'entraide. L'âge des solidarités ouvrières. [L'univers historique.] Editions du Seuil, Paris .  pp. € .. For those who do not know, the citation in the title of the volume by Fabrice Bensimon et al. is an English translation of the first phrase of "The Internationale", written by the French Internationalist and Communard Eugène Poitiers just after the crushing of the Paris Commune in . While the song clearly refers to the International Workingmen's Association (IWMA), or First International, founded in , it later became the official anthem of the Socialist or Second International, founded in . Clearly, by choosing this song, the latter wanted to stress continuity with its predecessor. Labour internationalists of all sorts have referred to the First International as progenitor, but, however right they may have been, it is important to stress its unique character and the discontinuities in organizing internationally. The First International was not a federation of national socialist parties like the Second, nor was it a unified and centralized "world party" like the Third oron a much smaller scale − the Fourth International. Unlike these, and even more unlike today's highly institutionalized international NGOs, the First International was a bottom-up, grassroots combination of local sections, trade unions, and individuals, coordinated by a General Council in London to stimulate and support organizations of the working class internationally, be it exclusively in Europe and the Americas. This insight also guides Bensimon et al.,

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“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth”. The First International in a Global Perspective. Ed. by Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz, and Jeanne Moisand. [Studies in Global Social History, Vol. 29.] Brill, Leiden [etc.] 2018. xiv, 404 pp. Ill. € 140.00; $168.00. (E-book: Open Access). - Nicolas Delalande. La lutte et l'entraide. L’âge des solidarités ouvrières. [L'univers historique.] Editions du Seuil, Paris2019. 361 pp. € 24.00.

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2019

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Internationalism, Protectionism, Xenophobia: The Second International's Migration Debate (1889–1914)

Musters¹

2022

Int Rev of Soc His

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In 1907, the Second International adopted a resolution on migration that rejected restrictions on the free movement of workers. In this article, we contend that, despite this official stance, the issue of migration was a highly controversial one for the international socialist community. We present a multi-level analysis, in which we detail the migration debate as it took place on the platforms of the Second International (roughly between 1903 and 1907) and the way in which this debate played out domestically for the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands and the Socialist Party of America – two parties that openly rooted for restrictions at the international level. We discern three ideal-typical stances on immigration – internationalism, on the one hand, and protectionist nativism and xenophobic nativism, on the other – and argue that it was the incompatibility of the internationalist and nativist positions that caused internal divisions to arise during the debates. Apart from speaking to the classic historiography on the Second International, which deals with the incompatibility of internationalism and nationalism, this article traces the influence of additional racist and culturalist ideologies on the debate and further historicizes it within the broader context of the modern international migration system that was taking shape at the time.

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Trade unions and workplace organization: regulating labour markets in the Belgian and American flat glass industry and in the Amsterdam diamond industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Knotter

2016

Labor History

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Transnational Cigar-Makers: Cross-Border Labour Markets, Strikes, and Solidarity at the Time of the First International (1864–1873)

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Internationalism, Protectionism, Xenophobia: The Second International's Migration Debate (1889–1914)

Trade unions and workplace organization: regulating labour markets in the Belgian and American flat glass industry and in the Amsterdam diamond industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

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