Claiming the city A global history of workers' fight for municipal socialism
Book - 2023
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- Genres
- History
- Published
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New York :
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2023.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 880 pages 880 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781839767777
- Introduction: Cities and the Origins of Labor Politics
- Part I. Municipal Origins and the Rise of Labor
- Introduction: "Paris Is Burning": The Paris Commune and Historical Memory
- 1. The Rise of Cities and Elite Traditions of Urban Governance
- 2. Labor Conflict and the New Working-Class Politics
- Part II. City Politics, Municipal Socialism, and Labor's Fight for Urban Space
- Introduction: Claiming Political Space: The Municipal Franchise and the Limits of Urban Citizenship
- 3. Laborism and a New Urban Politics: England
- 4. "Like a Pike in a Carp Pond": Municipal Socialism in Germany
- 5. Contested Cities Down Under: New Zealand and Australia
- 6. Battling for Labors Local Political Space: United States
- 7. Promises of Power: Internationalism from Below
- Part III. The Crises of War, Nationalism, and the Social Reconstruction of Cities
- Introduction: "The Brink of the Abyss": The Great War and the Collapse of the Second International
- 8. War! Shifting Currents of Localism, Nationalism, and Internationalism
- 9. The Wartime Politics of Everyday Life in Britain
- 10. Opposing Conscription and War on the Urban Periphery: The Antipodes and the United States
- 11. War and Revolution: The Home Front in Germany's Wartime Cities
- 12. A Democratic Moment: "Red Vienna" and the Promise of Social Democratic Cities in the Postwar Era
- Epilogue: Whither Social Democracy in Cities?
- Acknowledgments
- Lists of Maps and Photos
- List of Abbreviations
- Index