scholarly journals Toward a History of “The Communist League” 1847–1852

1956 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Nicolaevsky
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
Initial Period ◽  
Organizational Forms ◽  
International Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
International Labor Movement ◽  
Scientific Documentation

The activity of the Communist League (Kommunisten-Bund), 1847–1852, and of its immediate predecessors – the League of the Just (Bund der Gerechten), 1838–1847, and the Communist Correspondence Committee (Kommunist. Korrespondenz Kommittee), 1846–1847 – was undoubtedly one of the most interesting stages in the large process of the formation of the international labor movement in its initial period. The history of these organizations is important from many points of view: it is important for the understanding both of the true roots of this movement, and of its search for organizational forms; and particularly for the light it throws upon the history of its efforts to develop a program and tactics. This is why research has so often turned its attention to this subject. And yet, in terms of completeness and scientific documentation, there is as yet no study providing a satisfactory survey of the life and activities of these organizations.

The Preparation of International Labor Conventions

1934 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 506-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis G. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Adequate Information ◽  
International Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Labor Movement

There is virtual silence in the history of the international labor movement on the technique of preparing international labor conventions both before and at the Peace Conference. The developments of the last fourteen years in this field must, therefore, be listed as an unexpected evolution in international coöperation. It should have been easy to see at the end of the first International Labor Conference in 1919 that the methods of preparation were defective. That the Organizing Committee of 1919 should not have had adequate information on world labor conditions is understandable; but what is not understandable is that there was scarcely any consciousness of the magnitude of the problem before the International Labor Organization in drafting suitable labor conventions.

scholarly journals Race and Class in the Postwar World: The Southern African Labour Congress

2018 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 133-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Money
Keyword(s):  
Labor Movement ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
White Men ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
White Workers ◽  
International Labor Movement ◽  
Political Radicalism ◽  
National Framework

AbstractUnderstandings of class have often been highly racialized and gendered. This article examines the efforts of white workers’ organizations in Southern Africa during the 1940s to forge such a class identity across the region and disseminate it among the international labor movement. For these organizations, the “real” working class was composed of white men who worked in mines, factories, and on the railways, something pertinent to contemporary understandings of class.The focus of these efforts was the Southern African Labour Congress, which brought together white trade unions and labor parties and sought to secure a place for them in the postwar world. These organizations embodied the politics of “white laborism,” an ideology which fused political radicalism and white domination, and they enjoyed some success in gaining acceptance in the international labor movement. Although most labor histories of the region have adopted a national framework, this article offers an integrated regional labor history.

Beyond the Multinational States: the Revival of Nations and Nationalism

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-305
Author(s):  
Steen Bo Frandsen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
State University ◽  
Pennsylvania State University ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
International Labor ◽  
National Question ◽  
International Labor Movement

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