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19 - Anarchism and Syndicalism in the United States

from The North Atlantic Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

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

Both anarchism and syndicalism built upon pre-existing American traditions, while simultaneously adapting new ideas and tactics from Europe and elsewhere. Recognizably anarchist doctrines began to circulate in the decades before the American Civil War (1861–5), but a large-scale anarchist movement emerged only in the 1880s. The first and only major American syndicalist organization, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), appeared in 1905, influenced by American strains of Marxism and unionism as well as anarchism.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 466 - 488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Avrich, Paul, The Haymarket Tragedy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Avrich, Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991).Google Scholar
Castañeda, Christopher J., and Feu, Montse (eds.), Writing Revolution: Hispanic Anarchism in the United States (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cole, Peter, Struthers, David, and Zimmer, Kenyon (eds.), Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW (London: Pluto Press, 2017).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cornell, Andrew, Unruly Equality: US Anarchism in the Twentieth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dubofsky, Melvyn, We Shall Be All: A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, 2nd edn (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988).Google Scholar
Goyens, Tom, Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007).Google Scholar
Martin, James J., Men against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827–1908 (De Kalb, IL: Adrian Allen Associates, 1953).Google Scholar
Zimmer, Kenyon, Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015).Google Scholar

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