Those Without a Country: The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists

by Michael M. Topp and Michael Miller Topp

Book Overview

In the first book-length history of the Italian American syndicalist movement--the Italian Socialist Federation--Michael Miller Topp presents a new way of understanding the Progressive Era labor movement in relation to migration, transnationalism, gender, and class identity. Those without a Country demonstrates that characterizations of "old" (pre-1960s) social movements as predominantly class-based are vastly oversimplified--and contribute to current...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816636508
• ISBN13: 9780816636501
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 11.5"