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    From syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the politics of identity

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    Burgmann, V
    Date
    2005-03-01
    Source Title
    INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY
    Publisher
    CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Burgmann, Verity
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    Social and Political Sciences
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    Burgmann, V. (2005). From syndicalism to Seattle: Class and the politics of identity. INTERNATIONAL LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY, 67 (67), pp.1-21. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0147547905000013.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/30998
    DOI
    10.1017/s0147547905000013
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    <jats:p>In the first half of the twentieth century the labor movement promoted the notion of separate working-class values and interests—evident for example in American and European syndicalism, British interwar Communism and Australian interwar Laborism—and was thus identifiable as a social movement. Like the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this prewar identity politics successfully mobilized imagined political communities. By contrast, the retreat from emphasis on class difference and the turn to “equality of opportunity” politics, which Raymond Williams identified at midcentury and warned against, demobilized and weakened the labor movement. With class-based inequalities increasing from the 1970s, the decline of working-class identity politics ensured that the discrepancy between the objective importance of class and its subjective significance became especially marked. However, a newly forged identity politics of the world's economically exploited has recently reemerged in the movement against corporate globalization. From syndicalism to Seattle, we have witnessed the rise, retreat and resurgence of class identity politics.</jats:p>
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