Working-Class Self-Activity

Rawick, George P.

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“…As Madeleine Davis has recently argued, the multilayered 4 There are significant resonances, for example, between Thompson's notion of class formation and the efforts by political organizations like the Johnson-Forest Tendency in the US, and its later manifestations in the Correspondence and Facing Reality groups, and Socialisme ou Barbarie in France to uncover "proletarian experience" in its distinct locations. George Rawick, a member of Facing Reality, wrote that Thompson's work was a major contribution to the study of "working class self-activity" -the capacity for workers to organize themselves outside existing institutional structures -and had a powerful influence on New Left politics and labor history (Rawick, 1969).…”

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“Class Struggle is Not a Game”: Daniel Bensaïd’s Relational Conception of Class.

Arruzza

King

2020

Séc. XXI, Rev. Ci. Soc.

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Ainda que os escritos de Daniel Bensaïd sobre marxismo, a estratégia socialista e a temporalidade histórica tenham atraído mais atenção nos anos que se seguiram à sua morte, houve poucas tentativas de examinar sua análise de classe. Este artigo pretende corrigir essa lacuna situando os vários textos de Bensaïd sobre a teoria de classes com outras reinterpretações de classe na tradição marxista que buscam evitar o determinismo sociológico, a saber: a perspectiva da formação de classes em E. P. Thompson e a metodologia de composição de classe no operaísmo italiano. Ao traçar essas articulações, sugerimos que a concepção de classe de Bensaïd está historicamente enraizada e atenta ao conflito aberto e aos múltiplos terrenos da luta de classes.

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Section: Class Formationmentioning

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“Class Struggle is Not a Game”: Daniel Bensaïd’s Relational Conception of Class.

Arruzza

King

2020

Séc. XXI, Rev. Ci. Soc.

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“…A sizable minority, rejecting both US‐style capitalism and the repression of the Soviet Union's style of communism, were influenced by “socialism from below” (Moody, ). Many of these scholar‐activists found inspiration from what historian George Rawick (1929‐1990) famously termed “working class self‐activity” in 1969 (Rawick, ). They edited and published in explicitly radical journals like the British‐based New Left Review and Radical America , a non‐sectarian publication tied to the activist group Students for the Democratic Society (SDS).…”

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Twentieth century US labor history: Pedagogy, politics, and controversies Part 1

Pearson

2017

History Compass

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Twentieth Century labor history is far reaching and has had a major influence on the historical profession. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most labor historians were economists, scholars responsible for describing industrial relations and labor as a movement. Beginning in the 1960s, twentieth century labor scholars, most of whom were trained as historians and influenced by the Civil Rights, anti‐war, and labor movements, began focusing on the working classes more broadly, highlighting the ways a wide range of workers, including men, women, and African Americans, lived their lives both on the shop floor and in their communities. Politically, most labor historians in this period wrote as leftists or liberals, and many sought to reach audiences beyond university seminar rooms. But labor historians, especially Marxist types, have faced many attacks from critics for supposedly paying insufficient attention to gender and racial issues. In general, these critics have overstated their cases, failing to appreciate the many pioneering studies by labor historians that examine gender and racial relations without losing sight of class divisions and struggles.

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“…But most important, it all occurred not because the older unions tried to organize industrial workers, but in spite of these unions and even against their opposition. When the crisis came, the response of the AF of L unions was to protect their own members’ jobs and wages from the onslaught of millions of unorganized workers placed in the pool of the proletarians.George Rawick (1969), Working Class Self-Activity , emphasis added…”

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Roll Over Sam Gompers: Race, Class, Culture, and Revolution

Dolgon

2015

Contemp Sociol

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Working-Class Self-Activity

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“Class Struggle is Not a Game”: Daniel Bensaïd’s Relational Conception of Class.

“Class Struggle is Not a Game”: Daniel Bensaïd’s Relational Conception of Class.

Twentieth century US labor history: Pedagogy, politics, and controversies Part 1

Roll Over Sam Gompers: Race, Class, Culture, and Revolution

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