Claiming the City (eBook)

A Global History of Workers' Fight for Municipal Socialism

Shelton Stromquist (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023 | Ebook UK & RoW
880 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-83976-778-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Winner of the International Labor History Association (ILHA) 2023 Book of the Year Award for labor historyFor more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. At every turn propertied elites challenged their right to govern.Prominent US labor historian, Shelton Stromquist, offers the first global account of the origins of this new trans-local socialist politics. He explains how and why cities after 1890 became crucibles for municipal socialism. Drawing on the colorful stories of local activists and their social-democratic movements in cities as diverse as Broken Hill, Christchurch, Malm,, Bradford, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Hamilton, OH, the book shows how this new urban politics arose.Long governed by propertied elites, cities in the nineteenth century were transformed by mass migration and industrialization that tore apart their physical and social fabric. Amidst massive strikes and faced with epidemic disease, fouled streets, unsafe water, decrepit housing, and with little economic security and few public amenities, urban workers invented a local politics that promised to democratize cities they might themselves govern and reclaim the wealth they created. This new politics challenged the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements. Municipal socialist ideas have continued to inspire activists in their fight for the right of cities to govern themselves.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.2.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 49 b&w photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Australia/New Zealand • city politics • Conscription • Eduard Bernstein • Global History • Home Rule • Independent Labour Party (ILP) • municipal socialism • Paris Commune • Red Vienna • Revisionism • Sewer socialism • Sidney and Beatrice Webb • Social Democracy • Social Democratic Party, Germany (SPD) • Tom Mann • Urban reform • Victor Berger • Workers’ and Soldiers’ Councils • World War I
• ISBN-10: 1-83976-778-2 / 1839767782
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83976-778-4 / 9781839767784