Strikes, Wars, and Revolutions in an International Perspective
Strike Waves in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

This 1989 book contains essays on labour conflicts in major industrialized countries before, during and after World War I.

Leopold H. Haimson (Edited by), Charles Tilly (Edited by)

9780521526982, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 4 July 2002

552 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 3.2 cm, 0.896 kg

"...a stimulating contribution, combining broad analysis with particular research, and successfully reaffirming the usefulness of quantitative study." Geoff Eley, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

The contributions to this 1989 volume are concerned with the patterns of continuity and change in industrial labour conflicts in major industrialized countries before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. The articles have been conceived as part of a series of efforts to assist the further development of comparative labour history, and in particular the application of quantitative techniques to the analysis of industrial labour conflicts in comparative perspective. The intensive examination of strike waves in the volume offers a nuanced critique of economic models of strike activities. Political and organizational explanations come in for trenchant analysis as well.

Preface
Part I. Introduction: 1. Theories and realities Charles Tilly
2. The historical setting in Russia and the West Leopold H. Haimson
Part II. Models and Realities: 3. Introduction Leopold H. Haimson and Eric Brian
4. Changing forms of labor conflict: secular development or strike waves? Friedhelm Boll
5. Strikes and power in Britain, 1870–1920 James E. Cronin
6. Two strike waves in Imperial Russia, 1905–7, 1912–14 Leopold H. Haimson and Ronald Petrusha
7. Strikers in revolution: Russia, 1917 Diane Koenker and William G. Rosenberg
8. Strikes in Imperial Russia, 1895–1913: a quantitative analysis V. I. Bovykin, L. I. Borodkin and Y. I. Kiryanov
9. Labor conflicts in Italy before the rise of fascism, 1881–1923: a quantitative analysis Lorenzo Bordogna, Gian Primo Cella and Giancarlo Provasi
10. Strikes and politics in the United States, 1900–19 P. K. Edwards
Part III. Workers in Metal-Processing Enterprises in Comparative Perspective: 11. From the mechanic to the metallo Michelle Perrot
12. Strikes of machinists in the United States, 1870–1922 David Montgomery
13. The political economy of British engineering workers during the First World War Keith Burgess
14. The rationalization of class struggle: strikes and strike strategy of the German Metalworkers' Union, 1891–1922 Elisabeth Domansky
15. Scientific management and the changing nature of work in the St. Petersburg metalworking industry, 1900–14 Heather Hogan
16. Structural processes of change and changing patterns of labor unrest: the case of the metal-processing industry in Imperial Russia, 1890–1914 Leopold H. Haimson
17. Social characteristics, attitudes, and patterns of strike behaviour of metalworkers in Italy during the First World War Bruno Bezza
Part IV: The Effects of Short-Term Variation: 18. Introduction Charles Tilly
19. Economic cycles and labor conflicts in Germany during the first quarter of the twentieth century Friedhelm Boll
20. The crisis of state and society in Britain, 1917–22 James E. Cronin
21. Strikes and the war Hugues Lagrange
22. Labor unrest in Imperial Russia on the eve of the First World War: the roles of conjunctural phenomena, events, and individual and collective actors Leopold H. Haimson
23. Strikes in Russia, 1917: the impact of revolution Diane Koenker and William G. Rosenberg
Part V. Conclusion: 24. Conclusion Leopold H. Haimson.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]