Urban Radicals, Rural Allies: Social Democracy and the Agrarian Issue, 1870-1914 - Couverture rigide

Hitchins, Keitch; Markey, Raymond; Simonson, Birger; Blok, Aad

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 390677015X ISBN 13 : 9783906770154

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2002

Synopsis

Social democracy experienced a dramatic growth in the four decades prior to World War I. In this period, the era of the Second International, orthodox Marxism was the official ideology for most social democratic and labour parties. As these parties sought effective parliamentary representation, increasing tension developed between social democratic theory and practice. One of the greatest expressions of the contradiction between theory and practice was the social democratic approach to the peasantry and the rural sector in general. The eighteen contributions to this volume examine the attitudes of social democratic parties in Australia and Europe towards the peasantry and the agrarian issue. The contributors show how these attitudes varied greatly among the different countries, depending on the socioeconomic and political structure, the role of radical populism and the situation within the social democratic party in the countries in question.

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The Editors : Aad Blok (1959) is Managing Editor of the International Review of Social History at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Keith Hitchins (1931) is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Raymond Markey (1949) is Associate Professor in Industrial Relations at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Birger Simonson (1950) is Director of the Department of Working Life Studies and Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 390677015X
• ISBN 13: 9783906770154
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 451
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