Cambridge Scholars Publishing Working-Class Nationalism and Internationalism until 1945: Essays in Global Labour History

Nationalism and internationalism have always been powerful forces in the labour movements of the world. From the First to the Fourth International, from the International Labour Organization to the many international federations of trade unions, historians have studied both of these great forces for more than a hundred years. Interest in working-class nationalism and internationalism has also increased since the growth of global labour history, on the one hand, and the study of nationalism as a historically constructed phenomenon on the other. This volume is a part of this great upsurge in interest in working-class nationalism and internationalism. It brings together the work of postgraduate and postdoctoral scholars who have approached these two themes in their research. Covering subjects as diverse as the political instruction of Soviet sailors, the early and forgotten years of Chinese socialism, and debates within the socialist movement about Labour Zionism, this book represents an important contribution to labour, social and global history – and helps us to understand the roads down which labour movements around the world have travelled to get where they are today. About the Author Steven Parfitt is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Loughborough, UK. His research deals with British, American and global social history, and particularly with labour movements in those countries and around the world. His publications include Knights Across the Atlantic: The Knights of Labor in Britain and Ireland, and numerous articles in scholarly journals, including Labor, Labour History Review and the International Review of Social History, and in newspapers and magazines including Jacobin and The Guardian. Lorenzo Costaguta is Teaching Fellow in US History at the University of Birmingham, UK, having received his PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2017. His research focuses on ideas of class and race in the socialist movement across the world. He has published on the history of American socialism during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and on ideas of liberalism and multiculturalism. Matthew Kidd received his PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2016. His research focuses on the relationship between socio-political identities and progressive ideologies in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. He has published several articles and book chapters on topics ranging from pro-war socialism during the First World War to the conceptual framework of radical and labourist ideology. John Tiplady is a Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War. He received his PhD from the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2017 and his publications include Civil Liberties Under Siege: The U.S. Federal Government and the anti-Stalinist Left, 1941-1958. John has previously been a Research Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and his work has received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.