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18 - Anarchism and Syndicalism in the United Kingdom

from The North Atlantic Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
David Goodway
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

For a century and a half anarchists have been overwhelmingly socialist, despite the concurrent existence of small numbers of individualists in Europe and the USA. Yet a fruitful, though neglected, approach to understanding anarchism is to recognize its thoroughly socialist critique of capitalism, while emphasizing that this has been combined with a liberal critique of socialism, anarchists being united with liberals in their advocacy of autonomous associations and the freedom of the individual, even exceeding them in their opposition to statism.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 444 - 465
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Clegg, Hugh Armstrong, A History of British Trade Unions since 1889, vol. ii, 1911–1933 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).Google Scholar
Goodway, David (ed.), For Workers’ Power: The Selected Writings of Maurice Brinton, 2nd edn (Chico, CA: AK Press, 2020).Google Scholar
Hinton, James, The First Shop Stewards’ Movement (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973).Google Scholar
Holton, Bob, British Syndicalism, 1900–1914: Myths and Realities (London: Pluto Press, 1976).Google Scholar
Mates, Lewis H., The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016).Google Scholar
Price, Richard, ‘Contextualizing British syndicalism, c. 1907–c. 1920’, Labour History Review 63 (1998), pp. 261–76.Google Scholar
Ray, Rob, A Beautiful Idea: History of the Freedom Press Anarchists (London: Freedom Press, 2018).Google Scholar
Reid, Alastair, ‘Dilution, Trade Unionism and the State during the First World War’, in Tolliday, S. and Zeitlin, J. (eds.), Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 46–74.Google Scholar
Thompson, E. P., William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, 2nd edn (London: Merlin Press, 1977).Google Scholar
Wright, Anthony W., ‘Guild socialism revisited’, Journal of Contemporary History 9, 1 (January 1974), pp. 165–80 (reprinted in Tony Wright, Doing Politics (London, Backbite, 2012)).Google Scholar

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