Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940

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 senior lecturer in Sociology at that institution. Winner of the 2007 Labor History thesis prize, and the 2008/2009 CODESRIA Africa thesis prize, he is co-author of Black Flame: the revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism (AK Press. San Francisco), volume 1 of Counter Power: new perspectives on global anarchism and syndicalism (with Michael Schmidt).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of ContributorsPreface, Benedict AndersonRethinking Anarchism and Syndicalism: the colonial and post-colonial experience, 1870-1940, Lucien van der Walt and Steven J. HirschPART 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 GormanRevolutionary syndicalism, communism and the national question in South African socialism, 1886-1928, Lucien van der WaltKorean Anarchism before 1945: a regional and transnational approach, Dongyoun HwangAnarchism 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 ShubinSyndicalism, Industrial Unionism, and Nationalism in Ireland, Emmet O’ConnorPART TWO: ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLDPeruvian Anarcho-Syndicalism: adapting transnational influences and forging counterhegemonic Practices, 1905-1930, Steven J. HirschTropical Libertarians: anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s-1920s, Kirk ShafferStraddling the Nation and the Working World: anarchism and syndicalism on the docks and rivers of Argentina, 1900-1930, Geoffroy de LaforcadeConstructing Syndicalism and Anarchism Globally: the transnational making of the syndicalist movement in São Paulo, Brazil, 1895-1935, Edilene Toledo and Luigi BiondiFinal Reflections: the vicissitudes of anarchist and syndicalist trajectories, 1940 to the present, Steven J. Hirsch and Lucien van der WaltIndex

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