"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth". The First International in a Global Perspective, Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz et Jeanne Moisand

 

"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth"

The First International in a Global Perspective

Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz et Jeanne Moisand (Eds)

Brill 

 Studies in Global Social History

2018

Présentation de l'éditeur

“Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth” provides a fresh account of the International Working Men’s Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas.
The IWMA struggled for the emancipation of labour. It organised solidarity with strikers. It took sides in major events, such as the 1871 Paris Commune. It soon appeared as a threat to European powers, which vilified and prosecuted it. Although it split up in 1872, the IWMA played a ground-breaking part in the history of working-class internationalism.
In our age of globalised capitalism, large labour migration, and rising nationalisms, much can be learnt from the history of the first international labour organisation.

Contributors are: Fabrice Bensimon, Gregory Claeys, Michel Cordillot, Nicolas Delalande, Quentin Deluermoz, Marianne Enckell, Albert Garcia Balaña, Samuel Hayat, Jürgen Herres, François Jarrige, Mathieu Léonard, Carl Levy, Detlev Mares, Krzysztof Marchlewicz, Woodford McClellan, Jeanne Moisand, Iorwerth Prothero, Jean Puissant, Jürgen Schmidt, Antje Schrupp, Horacio Tarcus, Antony Taylor, Marc Vuilleumier.

Fabrice Bensimon is professor in British History and Civilisation at the Paris-Sorbonne University Paris 4 and a member of the Centre dhistoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1 Paris 4). Quentin Deluermoz is Associate Professor in History at the University of Paris North Paris 13, Research Fellow at the Centre de recherches historiques (EHESS) and member of IUF. He is the author of Le Crépuscule des revolutions, 1848-1871 (2012) and co-author of Pour une histoire des possibles (2016). Jeanne Moisand is Associate Professor in History at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University Paris 1 and member of the Centre dhistoire du XIXe siècle (Paris 1 Paris 4).