Author : James R. Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:472996912
Grass-roots Socialism
James R. Green
Grass Roots Socialism
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Grass-Roots Socialism
James R. Green
Author : James R. Green
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1978-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807107735
Grass-Roots Socialism by James R. Green Pdf
Grass-Roots Socialism answers two of the most intriguing questions in the history of American radicalism: why was the Socialist party stronger in Oklahoma than in any other state, and how was the party able to build powerful organizations in nearby rural southwestern areas? Many of the same grievances that had created a strong Populist movement in the region provided the Socialists with potent political issues—the railroad monopoly, the crop lien system, and political corruption. With these widely felt grievances to build on, the Socialists led the class-conscious farmers and workers to a radicalism that was far in advance of that advocated by the earlier People’s party. Examined in this broadly based study of the movement are popular leaders like Oklahoma’s Oscar Ameringer (“The Mark Twain of American Socialism”), “Red Tom” Hickey of Texas, and Kate Richards O’Hare, who was second only to Eugene Debs as a Socialist orator. Included also is information on the party’s propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers which claimed fifty thousand subscribers in the Southwest by 1913, and on the attractive summer camp meetings which drew thousands of poor white tenant farmers to week-long agitation and education sessions.
Constructing Socialism at the Grass-Roots
C. Ross
Author : C. Ross
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0333789806
Constructing Socialism at the Grass-Roots by C. Ross Pdf
In the two decades following the defeat of the Third Reich, East Germany was transformed from a war-ravaged occupation zone into an apparent model of Soviet style socialism. Based on extensive archival research, this book explores the building of socialism in East Germany not from the standard perspective of the party and state authorities. It also examines the effect this had at the grassroots level, where patterns of popular opinion, social and cultural continuities from the pre-communist past and the divided loyalties of local functionaries played a crucial role in shaping the face of real existing socialism.
Socialism at the Grass Roots
Evan Luard
Author : Evan Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0716304686
Socialism at the Grass Roots by Evan Luard Pdf
Socialist Cities
Richard W. Judd
Author : Richard W. Judd
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438408095
Socialist Cities by Richard W. Judd Pdf
Socialist Cities is a comparative treatment of grass-roots Socialist successes. It marks the first comprehensive look at the urban working-class base of the American Socialist movement in the early part of the century, and reveals the importance of municipal politics as an organizing strategy. The author assesses the reactions of both workers and non-workers to the party, and provides a fresh perspective on the perennial question of why socialism 'failed' in America. He demonstrates that the subtle and ongoing dialogue between the party's own internal theoretical and tactical weaknesses and the broader class and structural obstacles against which it struggled, contributed to its failure.
Grass Roots and Cadre in the Protest Movement
Vincent Boudreau
Author : Vincent Boudreau
Publisher : Ateneo University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9715503756
Grass Roots and Cadre in the Protest Movement by Vincent Boudreau Pdf
Grass Roots and Cadre investigates the processes of recruitment, protest, debate, and contestation in a Philippine social movement between 1986 and 1988.
Socialism and the Southwestern Class Struggle, 1898-1918
James Robert Green
Author : James Robert Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Social classes
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035850242
Socialism and the Southwestern Class Struggle, 1898-1918 by James Robert Green Pdf
This thesis examines the growth of the Socialist Party in the region where it developed its greatest grass-roots strength in the early twentieth century: the Southwest, specifically Oklahoma (the state in which the party built its best organization between 1910 and 1916), Texas, and, to a lesser extent, western Louisiana and Arkansas. --
Industrial Democracy, Neo-socialism, Or Grass-roots Liberalism
Chiaki Nishiyama
Author : Chiaki Nishiyama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Democracy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081471943
Industrial Democracy, Neo-socialism, Or Grass-roots Liberalism by Chiaki Nishiyama Pdf
Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists
Kyle G. Wilkison
Author : Kyle G. Wilkison
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1603440658
Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists by Kyle G. Wilkison Pdf
As the nineteenth century ended in Hunt County, Texas, a way of life was dying. The tightly knit, fiercely independent society of the yeomen farmers—”plain folk,” as historians have often dubbed them—was being swallowed up by the rising tide of a rapidly changing, cotton-based economy. A social network based on family, religion, and community was falling prey to crippling debt and resulting loss of land ownership. For many of the rural people of Hunt County and similar places, it seemed like the end of the world. In Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists historian Kyle G. Wilkison analyzes the patterns of plain-folk life and the changes that occurred during the critical four decades spanning the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Political protest evolved in the wake of the devastating losses experienced by the poor rural majority, and Wilkison carefully explores the interplay of religion and politics as Greenbackers, Populists, and Socialists vied for the support of the dispossessed tenant farmers and sharecroppers. With its richly drawn contextualization and analysis of the causes and effects of the epochal shifts in plain-folk society, Kyle G. Wilkison’s Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists will reward students and scholars in economic, regional, and agricultural history.
Roots of Reform
Elizabeth Sanders
Author : Elizabeth Sanders
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226734774
Roots of Reform by Elizabeth Sanders Pdf
Offering a revision of the understanding of the rise of the American regulatory state in the late 19th century, this book argues that politically mobilised farmers were the driving force behind most of the legislation that increased national control.
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight
Jeanette Keith
Author : Jeanette Keith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807828977
Rich Man's War, Poor Man's Fight by Jeanette Keith Pdf
During World War I, thousands of rural southern men, black and white, refused to serve in the military. Some failed to register with the draft, while others deserted after being inducted. Jeanette Keith traces southern draft resistance to several sources.
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
Kerstin Jacobsson
Author : Kerstin Jacobsson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317003847
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe by Kerstin Jacobsson Pdf
What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban grassroots mobilisation represents a new phase in the development of post-socialist civil societies and that these civil societies have significantly more vitality than is commonly perceived. The case studies here reflect the diversity and complexity of post-socialist urban movements, capturing also the extent to which the laboratory of urban politics is richly illustrative of the complex nexus of state-society-market relations within post-socialism. The grassroots campaigns and actions reflect the new social cleavages and increased polarisation as a consequence of neoliberal urbanisation and global integration, as well as the transformation of state power and authority in the region. Studying urban activism in Central and Eastern Europe is instructive for urban movements scholars generally, as it forces us to acknowledge the variety of forms that contention can take and the usefulness of embedding the study of urban movements within a larger understanding of civil society.
Agrarian Socialism in America
Jim Bissett
Author : Jim Bissett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0806134275
Agrarian Socialism in America by Jim Bissett Pdf
Why was Oklahoma, of all places, more hospitable to socialism than any other state in America? In this provocative book, Jim Bissett chronicles the rise and fall of the Socialist Party of Oklahoma during the first two decades of the twentieth century, when socialism in the United States enjoyed its golden age. To explain socialism’s popularity in Oklahoma, Bissett looks back to the state’s strong tradition of agrarian reform. Drawing most of its support from working farmers, the Socialist Party of Oklahoma was rooted in such well-established organizations as the Farmers Alliance and the Indiahoma Farmers’ Union. And to broaden its appeal, the Party borrowed from the ideology both of the American Revolution and of Christianity. By making Marxism speak in American terms, the author argues, Party activists counteracted the prevailing notion that socialism was illegitimate or un-American.
Community Power and Grassroots Democracy
Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
Author : Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso
Publisher : International Development Research Centre Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019810618
Community Power and Grassroots Democracy by Michael Kaufman,Haroldo Dilla Alfonso Pdf
The collected essays in this book provide a comparative examination of the process of grassroots mobilization and the development of community-based forms of popular democracy in Central and South America. The first part contains studies from individual countries on organizations ranging from those supported by governments and integrated into the country's political structure to groups that were organized against the existing political system. The organizations studied included those focusing on a particular concern, such as housing, and those with wide responsibility for community affairs; but all were organizations based on common interests where people lived and, in some cases, where people worked. The second part offers theme studies on men, women and differential participation; problems and meanings associated with decentralization, especially in relation to devolution of power to the local level and the construction of popular alternatives; and the competing theoretical paradigms of new social movements and resource mobilization.
The White Scourge
Neil Foley
Author : Neil Foley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0520918525
The White Scourge by Neil Foley Pdf
In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1940s, bridges the intellectual chasm between African American and Southern history on one hand and Chicano and Southwestern history on the other. The White Scourge describes a unique borderlands region, where the cultures of the South, West, and Mexico overlap, to provide a deeper understanding of the process of identity formation and to challenge the binary opposition between "black" and "white" that often dominates discussions of American race relations. In Texas, which by 1890 had become the nation's leading cotton-producing state, the presence of Mexican sharecroppers and farm workers complicated the black-white dyad that shaped rural labor relations in the South. With the transformation of agrarian society into corporate agribusiness, white racial identity began to fracture along class lines, further complicating categories of identity. Foley explores the "fringe of whiteness," an ethno-racial borderlands comprising Mexicans, African Americans, and poor whites, to trace shifting ideologies and power relations. By showing how many different ethnic groups are defined in relation to "whiteness," Foley redefines white racial identity as not simply a pinnacle of status but the complex racial, social, and economic matrix in which power and privilege are shared. Foley skillfully weaves archival material with oral history interviews, providing a richly detailed view of everyday life in the Texas cotton culture. Addressing the ways in which historical categories affect the lives of ordinary people, The White Scourge tells the broader story of racial identity in America; at the same time it paints an evocative picture of a unique American region. This truly multiracial narrative touches on many issues central to our understanding of American history: labor and the role of unions, gender roles and their relation to ethnicity, the demise of agrarian whiteness, and the Mexican-American experience.