When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 (Historical Materialism) - Softcover

Ovetz, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642590592 ISBN 13: 9781642590593

Verlag: Haymarket Books, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921 explores one of the most tumultuous times in United States history. Self-organized workers recomposed their power by devising new strategies and tactics to disrupt the capitalist economy and extract concessions. Mine, railroad, steel, and iron workers pursued a strategy of tension that sometimes erupted into militant class conflict and general strikes in which workers took over and ran a number of cities. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, When Workers Shot Back argues that the escalation of working-class conflict drives rather than reacts to the consolidation and reorganisation of capital and economic and political reform of the state. Studying the class composition of this period illustrates why workers escalated the intensity of their tactics, even using tactical violence, to extract concessions and reforms when all other efforts to do so were blocked, co-opted or repressed.

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Robert Ovetz has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Texas-Austin. His work focuses on contingent labor and worker self-organisation at the turn of the 20th century. He is a lecturer in political science at San José State University in California, USA.

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• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1642590592
• ISBN 13: 9781642590593
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 606
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