"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.
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).
