Italian Workers of the World: Labor Migration and the Formation of Multiethnic StatesDonna R. Gabaccia, Fraser M. Ottanelli Offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on the experiences of Italian workers on foreign soil, Italian Workers of the World explores the complex links between international class formation and nation building. Distinguished by an international panel of contributors, this wide-ranging volume examines how the reception of immigrants in their new countries shaped their sense of national identity and helped determine the nature of the multiethnic states in which they settled. In Argentina and Brazil, Italian migrants were welcomed as a civilizing influence and were instrumental in establishing and leading syndicalist and anarcho-syndicalist labor movements committed to labor internationalism. In the United States, by contrast, where Italian workers were greeted by the American Federation of Labor's hostility to socialism, internationalism, and unskilled laborers, they organized in ethnically mixed unions, including the radical Industrial Workers of the World. The xenophobia they encountered in the land of opportunity ultimately encouraged sympathy among Italian Americans for Mussolini's modernizing, imperialist ambitions for the Italian state.Covering the work of republican Garibaldi boundaries of historical nationalism. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
ITALIAN NATIONALISM IN AN AGE | 19 |
Programs and Politics of the First Italian Elite | 41 |
CLASS NATION AND INTERNATIONALISM | 61 |
Italians in | 79 |
The Italian Anarchist Press and WorkingClass Solidarity | 102 |
Immigrant Socialist Leaders | 121 |
The Possibilities and Limitations | 139 |
Italian Antifascism and the Garibaldine Tradition | 163 |
If Fascism Comes to America We Will Push It Back | 178 |
Italian Americans | 196 |
Antifascist Resistance in France from the Phony War | 214 |
Contributors | 233 |
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