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Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Wraps (PB) in as new condition. This is a study of the life of Jose Peirats (1908-1989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a collective agent--the working class Peirats was born into--and the affective ties of kinship, friendship, and community that cemented into a movement, the most powerful of its type in the world.Chris Ealham is the author of Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937. 314 pages with endnotes, bibliography and index.…

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Wraps (PB) in as new condition. From 1864 to 1876, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and anarchists synthesized a growing body of anticapitalist thought through participation in the First International--a body devoted to uniting left-wing radical tendencies of the time. Often remembered for the historic fights between Karl Marx and Michael Bakunin, the debates and experimentation during the International helped to refine and focus anarchist ideas into a doctrine of international working class self-liberation."This book is a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room. At long last, anarchists enter the history of socialism by the main door!"--Davide Turcato, author of Making Sense of Anarchism: The Experiments with Revolution of Errico Malatesta, Italian Exile in London, 1889-1900"Brimming with thought and feeling, richly textured, and not shy of judgment, Graham's book marshals a compelling argument and issues a provocative invitation to revisit--or perhaps to explore anew--the story, the struggles, and the persisting ramifications of this pioneering International."--Wayne Thorpe, author of The Workers Themselves: Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913-1923"With impressive and careful scholarship, Robert Graham guides us on a complex journey that reflects his command of the material and his ability to express it in a clear and straightforward way. If you were to think this is some dry history book, you couldn't be more wrong." 319 pages with endnotes and index.…