| Yankee International Contributor(s): Messer-Kruse, Timothy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807847054 ISBN-13: 9780807847053 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $45.13 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: Examines the clash of the American reform tradition with immigrant Marxism during Reconstruction through the story of the rise and fall of the International Workingmans Association, the first international socialist organization. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Radicalism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations |
| Dewey: 324.17 |
| LCCN: 97-36875 |
| Lexile Measure: 1660 |
| Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.13" W x 9.28" (1.19 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Examining the social and intellectual collision of the American reform tradition with immigrant Marxism during the Reconstruction era, Timothy Messer-Kruse charts the rise and fall of the International Workingman's Association (IWA), the first international socialist organization. He analyzes what attracted American reformers--many of them veterans of antebellum crusades for abolition, women's rights, and other radical causes--to the IWA, how their presence affected the course of the American Left, and why they were ultimately purged from the IWA by their orthodox Marxist comrades. Messer-Kruse explores the ideology and activities of the Yankee Internationalists, tracing the evolution of antebellum American reformers' thinking on the question of wage labor and illuminating the beginnings of a broad labor reform coalition in the early years of Reconstruction. He shows how American reformers' priority of racial and sexual equality clashed with their Marxist partners' strategy of infiltrating trade unions. Ultimately, he argues, Marxist demands for party discipline and ideological unity proved incompatible with the Yankees' native republicanism. With the expulsion of Yankee reformers from the IWA in 1871, American Marxism was divorced from the American reform tradition. |
Contributor Bio(s): Messer-Kruse, Timothy: - Timothy Messer-Kruse is assistant professor of labor history at the University of Toledo. |