Labnet: Book Ann: Early Dutch Labour History (in Dutch)

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Book ann: Early Dutch Labour History - Kelderuitgeverij
http://labourhistory.net/news/i0805_31.php 

Kelderuitgeverij just published a new edition of Jacques Giele's
classical study of the development of the Dutch workers movement
1868-1876 and its contact with the first International.

Bert Altena wrote a new introduction.

Jacques J. Giele, 'De Eerste Internationale in Nederland 1868-1876Een
onderzoek naar het ontstaan van de Nederlandse Arbeidersbeweging van
1868-1876'. Met een Inleiding van Bert Altena. Utrecht, Kelderuitgeverij
2008276p ill.22.50 euro

The beginning of workers activity is marked by debates in the
Freethinkersmovement 'De Dageraad" and by strikes of workers, starting
at the Amsterdam docks and later with strikes of the typographers.

Contact with the First International brought for the first time
socialist ideas to the Netherlands. A large number of unions joined the
International in the years 1870 and 1871 but contacts between the Dutch
section and the London Central Council never became intensive. At the
famous The Hague Congress in 1972 when the Dutch had to choose between
the centralising organisational ideas of Karl Marx and the federative
ideals of Michael Bakunin they chose Bakunin. Not because they were
anarchists but because they thought bottom up, from local autonomy.

Socialist ideas were fruitful. Later, in the 1880's the
Sociaal-Demokratische Bond under leadership of F. Domela Nieuwenhuis
could develop into a revolutionary mass-movement.

Order from
Kelderuitgeverij at xs4all.nl


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