Fighting against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century: The 14th National Labour History Conference, 11–13 February 2015, University of Melbourne

2015 ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Val Noone
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Peace Activism ◽  
Labour History

Patriotic Daughters and Isolationist Mothers

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Nickerson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
The Family ◽  
Peace Activism ◽  
Nationalist Sentiment ◽  
The Right ◽  
Conservative Women ◽  
Warrior Women

This chapter examines how women developed forms of antistatist protest in the first half of the twentieth century that posed an oppositional relationship between the family and government. By the 1950s, anticommunism and antistatism became widespread mechanisms of political protest for women on the right much as peace activism and welfare work came to seem natural for women on the left. But unlike the later generation of Cold Warrior women who exerted themselves most forcefully through local politics, conservative women of the early twentieth century made their strongest impact by attacking that national progressive state. They also demonized “internationalism” as the handmaiden to communism, discovering another foe that women's position in the family obliged them to oppose. Consequently, the earliest generation of conservative organizations adopted the habit of calling themselves “patriotic” groups to contrast their own nationalist sentiment with the internationalism of progressives, which they equated with communism. This pattern continued into the post-World War II era.

Labour History, the ‘Linguistic Turn’ and Postmodernism

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Geary
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Historical Structures ◽  
Labour History ◽  
Language Text

This article begins by examining recent work on labour history by some French and British historians, who have been influenced by postmodernism and the ‘linguistic turn’ but often find themselves locked into what are primarily ‘cultural’ explanations of labour's identity and development. It disputes the culturalist methodology and stresses that an alternative model of discourse analysis insists on contextualisation, which in turn re-instates the significance of realms of explanation outside language, text and culture. It also sees the comparative method as a means of identifying historical structures, and concludes with a schematic account of European labour in the twentieth century.

Fighting Against War: Peace Activism in the Twentieth Century

10.5263/faw ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Kimber ◽  
Phillip Deery ◽  
Karen Agutter ◽  
Anne Beggs Sunter ◽  
Robert Bollard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Peace Activism

scholarly journals “To Fight the Battles of the Workers”: The Emergence of Pro-strike Publications in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wessel P. Visser
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Racial Consciousness ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Industrial Disputes ◽  
Labour History ◽  
White Working Class

The role of pro-strike newspapers during the first two decades of labour history in twentieth-century South Africa, an era of intense industrial strife, has not been researched in depth by labour historians. This article examines the emergence of a pro-strike press and examines its position on various strike issues. It served as a conduit for workers' grievances during industrial disputes, such as the strikes of 1911, 1913, 1914, and 1922. Such papers were often also the only means of communication between the strike committee and the strikers themselves. The article also discusses the extent to which such publications might have impacted upon their readership and actual strike action. It concludes that pro-strike literature in essence reflects a “white-labour” discourse and a fusion of the class and racial consciousness that prevailed among the white working class of South Africa.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

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