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Transnational Labour History Transnational Labour History Explorations MARCEL VAN DER LINDEN International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands O Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First published 2003 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Marcel van der Linden 2003 Marcel van der Linden has asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Linden, Marcel van der Transnational labour history : explorations. - (Studies in labour history) 1. Labour movement - History I. Title 331.8' 09 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Linden, Marcel van der, 1952- Transnational labour history : explorations/Marcel van der Linden. p. cm. - (Studies in labour history) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7546-3085-4 (alk. paper) 1. Labor-History. 2. Labor movement-History. 3. Labor unions-History. 4. Comparative industrial relations. I. Title. II. Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm)) HD4841 .L495 2002 331.88' 091 —dc21 2002028117 ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-3085-2 (hbk) Contents Studies in Labour History General Editor’s Preface vii List of Tables and Figures ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction 1 2 The First International (1864-1876): A Reinterpretation 11 3 The National Integration of European Working Classes (1871-1914): Exploring the Causal Configuration 23 4 The Rise and Fall of Revolutionary Syndicalism (1890-1940) 49 5 Second Thoughts on Revolutionary Syndicalism 71 6 Communist Parties: The First Generation (1918-1923) 85 7 Metamorphoses of European Social Democracy (1870-2000) 95 8 The Aftermath of 41968’: Interactions of Workers’, Youth and Women’s Movements 117 9 Crossing the Borders of US-American Labour History 143 10 International Trade Unionism: A Long View 155 11 Doing Comparative Labour History: Some Preliminaries 173 12 How Normal is the ‘Normal’ Employment Relationship? 197 13 The Historical Limit of Workers’ Protest 205 Index 217 Studies in Labour History General Editor’s Preface Labour history has often been a fertile area of history. Since the Second World War its best practitioners - such as E.P. Thompson and E.J. Hobsbawm, both Presidents of the British Society for the Study of Labour History - have written works which have provoked fruitful and wide-ranging debates and further research, and which have influenced not only social history but history generally. These historians, and many others, have helped to widen labour history beyond the study of organized labour to labour generally, sometimes to industrial relations in particular, and most frequently to society and culture in national and comparative dimensions The assumptions and ideologies underpinning much of the older labour history have been challenged by feminist and later by postmodernist and anti- Marxist thinking. These challenges have often led to thoughtful reappraisals, perhaps intellectual equivalents of coming to terms with a new post-Cold War political landscape. By the end of the twentieth century, labour history had emerged reinvigorated and positive from much introspection and external criticism. Very few would wish to confine its scope to the study of organized labour. Yet, equally, few would wish now to write the existence and influence of organized labour out of nations’ histories, any more than they would wish to ignore working-class lives and focus only on the upper echelons. This series of books provides reassessments of broad themes of labour history as well as some more detailed studies arising from recent research. Most books are single-authored but there are also volumes of essays centred on important themes or periods, arising from major conferences organized by the Society for the Study of Labour History. The series also includes studies of labour organizations, including international ones, as many of these are much in need of a modern reassessment. Chris Wrigley British Society for the Study of Labour History University of Nottingham List of Tables and Figures Tables 3.1 Per capita volume of industrial production, 1800-1913 27 3.2 Railroads in kilometres per million inhabitants, 1870-1911 29 3.3 Men entitled to vote as a percentage of male age group defined by electoral law, 1870-1913 32 3.4 Social Democratic/Labour votes as a percentage of the total electorate, 1871-1914 33 3.5 Military appropriations per capita of population, 1880-1914 36 3.6 Percentage of working population covered by social insurance, 1885-1915 37 3.7 Comparison of integration-promoting factors: Britain, Germany and France versus Italy and Russia 41 4.1 The rise and fall of syndicalist organizations 52 7.1 Average electoral results of European social democratic parties, 1920-99 96 8.1 Changes in gross national product, 1955-75 119 8.2 University students 120 8.3 Days lost in labour disputes (strikes and lock-outs) per 100 000 non-agricultural labourers, 1960-75 122 8.4 Trade union density rates, 1968-76 123 8.5 Immediate outcomes of police intervention in student protest events 125 8.6 The female labour force as a percentage of the total labour force 130 10.1 The founding years of some national trade union confederations 159 10.2 ICFTU affiliation fees by region, 1960-98 164 Figures 10.1 The logic of international trade union cooperation 160 11.1 Levels of comparison 177 11.2 The application of comparative methods 182 11.3 Method of Agreement 184 11.4 Method of Difference 184 11.5 Joint Method 185 11.6 Most Similar Systems Design 186
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