'No Weapon So Powerful': Working-Class Newspapers in the United States

Bekken, Jon

doi:10.1177/019685998801200208

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“…66 Essentially, as Jon Bekken puts it, "the workers' press was central to movement efforts to carry out radical education and to create and sustain a specifically working-class culture." 67 Men from Croatia-Slavonia, such as the anarchists Stjepan Fabijanović and Ivan Zepp, spent decades abroad taking part in movements in other countries. Fabijanović, a baker from Slavonia, emigrated to the United States in 1897 and hoboed across the continent, seeking answers to questions about the "individual and the state, mass and man."…”

Section: The Age Of Wandering Agitatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revolutionary Migrants of the Early Labor Movement in Croatia-Slavonia, Dalmatia, and Istria in the Late Nineteenth and the Early Twentieth Century

Pejić

2021

Hist. flux (Online)

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In the late nineteenth century, prompted by uneven industrial development, the predominantly agrarian regions of Croatia-Slavonia, Dalmatia, and Istria were slowly undergoing processes of urbanization and economic transformation. As part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, these regions were subject to dynamic migrations of the labor force from several regions and neighboring countries. Industrialization was the crucial impetus behind the formation of the first working-class organizations and syndicates, but their development, their socio-political goals, and the strategies they employed were heavily influenced by socialist theoreticians and agitators from Austria-Hungary, Serbia, and Italy. This ideologically heterogeneous labor movement depended on cross-border cooperation with different individuals and collectives, ranging from Hungarian Marxists and Austrian social democrats to Italian anarchists. Even though unions and subversive pamphlets were illegal and closely monitored, migratory activists continued to agitate and collaborate with local workers through various underground channels. This paper will analyze various ideological inputs of migratory workers within the area that is now present-day Croatia during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. It will also examine the perception of their presence and activism articulated by political authorities and mainstream newspapers. Due to a lack of similar research, emphasis will be placed, to some extent, on anarchist activities in this area.

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Section: The Age Of Wandering Agitatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%