Socialism and Print Culture in America, 1897-1920

ISBN-13: 9781848933347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Opis

For socialists at the turn of the last century, reading was a radical act. This interdisciplinary study looks at how American socialists used literacy in the struggle against capitalism. The early presidential campaigns of Eugene V Debs - leader of the Socialist Party - produced a concerted effort to develop a socialist literature specifically for an American readership. There followed a rapid growth in printed material which helped the movement in its rise to prominence, however, Martinek contends that this over-reliance on the printed word was also to be instrumental in its subsequent downfall.

Spis treści

Introduction: ‘Workers of the World, Read!’; Chapter 1 ‘The Workingman’s Bible’ and the Making of American Socialism; Chapter 2 Charles H. Kerr & Company and the Americanization of Marxian Socialism; Chapter 3 Activist Readers and American Socialists’ Print Culture of Dissent; Chapter 4 How the Socialist Party Created a Print Culture of Dissent Without a Party-Owned Press; Chapter 5 Information Management and the Socialist Party’s Information Department and Research Bureau; Chapter 6 Annotations on the Failure of Socialism in America; Chapter 7 Conclusion: What a Book Cannot Do;

O autorze

Martinek, Jason D