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Now an established classic, Intellectual Origins of American
Radicalism was the first book to explore this alternative current
of American political thought. Stemming back to the
seventeenth-century English Revolution, many questioned private
property, the sovereignty of the nation-state, and slavery, and
affirmed the common man s ability to govern. By the time of the
American Revolution, Thomas Paine was the great exemplar of the
alternative intellectual tradition. In the nineteenth century, the
antislavery movement took hold of Thomas Paine s ideas and
fashioned them into an ideology that ultimately justified civil
war. This updated edition contains a new preface by the author,
which describes the inquiries that he undertook in his books of the
1960s and their conclusions. David Waldstreicher has contributed a
new historiographical essay that discusses the book s lasting
importance and contrasts its ideas with the work of Bernard Bailyn
and Gordon Wood.
First published in 1967, Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United
States Constitution was among the first studies to identify the
importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.
Provocative and powerful, this book offers explanations for the
movements and motivations that underpinned the Revolution and the
Early Republic. First, Staughton Lynd analyzes what motivated farm
tenants and artisans during the period of the American Revolution.
Second, he argues that slavery, and a willingness to compromise
with slavery, were at the center of all political arrangements by
the patriot leadership, including the United States Constitution.
Third, he maintains that the historiography of the United States
has adopted the mistaken perspective of Thomas Jefferson, who held
that southern plantation owners were merely victimized agrarians.
This new edition reproduces the original Preface by Edward P.
Thompson and includes a new Afterword by Robin Einhorn that
examines Lynd's arguments in the context of forty years of
subsequent scholarship.
First published in 1967, Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United
States Constitution was among the first studies to identify the
importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.
Provocative and powerful, this book offers explanations for the
movements and motivations that underpinned the Revolution and the
Early Republic. First, Staughton Lynd analyzes what motivated farm
tenants and artisans during the period of the American Revolution.
Second, he argues that slavery, and a willingness to compromise
with slavery, were at the center of all political arrangements by
the patriot leadership, including the United States Constitution.
Third, he maintains that the historiography of the United States
has adopted the mistaken perspective of Thomas Jefferson, who held
that southern plantation owners were merely victimized agrarians.
This new edition reproduces the original Preface by Edward P.
Thompson and includes a new Afterword by Robin Einhorn that
examines Lynd's arguments in the context of forty years of
subsequent scholarship.
Now an established classic, Intellectual Origins of American
Radicalism was the first book to explore this alternative current
of American political thought. Stemming back to the
seventeenth-century English Revolution, many questioned private
property, the sovereignty of the nation-state, and slavery, and
affirmed the common man s ability to govern. By the time of the
American Revolution, Thomas Paine was the great exemplar of the
alternative intellectual tradition. In the nineteenth century, the
antislavery movement took hold of Thomas Paine s ideas and
fashioned them into an ideology that ultimately justified civil
war. This updated edition contains a new preface by the author,
which describes the inquiries that he undertook in his books of the
1960s and their conclusions. David Waldstreicher has contributed a
new historiographical essay that discusses the book s lasting
importance and contrasts its ideas with the work of Bernard Bailyn
and Gordon Wood."
"Wobblies and Zapatistas" offers the reader an encounter between
two generations and two traditions. Andrej Grubacic is an anarchist
from the Balkans. Staughton Lynd is a lifelong pacifist, influenced
by Marxism. They meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together
the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of
history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that "my
country is the world." Encompassing a Left libertarian perspective
and an emphatically activist standpoint, these conversations are
meant to be read in the clubs and affinity groups of the new
Movement.
The authors accompany us on a journey through modern revolutions,
direct actions, anti-globalist counter summits, Freedom Schools,
Zapatista cooperatives, Haymarket and Petrograd, Hanoi and
Belgrade, "intentional" communities, wildcat strikes, early
Protestant communities, Native American democratic practices, the
Workers' Solidarity Club of Youngstown, occupied factories,
self-organized councils and soviets, the lives of forgotten
revolutionaries, Quaker meetings, antiwar movements, and prison
rebellions. Neglected and forgotten moments of interracial
self-activity are brought to light. The book invites the attention
of readers who believe that a better world, on the other side of
capitalism and state bureaucracy, may indeed be possible.
Legendary legal scholar Staughton Lynd teams up with influential
labor organizer Daniel Gross in this exposition on solidarity
unionism, the do-it-yourself workplace organizing system that is
rapidly gaining prominence around the country and around the world.
Lynd and Gross make the audacious argument that workers themselves
on the shop floor, not outside union officials, are the real hope
for labor's future. Utilizing the principles of solidarity
unionism, any group of co-workers, like the workers at Starbucks,
can start building an organization to win an independent voice at
work without waiting for a traditional trade union to come and
"organize" them. Indeed, in a leaked recording of a conference
call, the nation's most prominent union-busting lobbyist coined a
term, "the Starbucks problem," as a warning to business executives
about the risk of working people organizing themselves and taking
direct action to improve issues at work.
Combining history and theory with the groundbreaking practice of
the model by Starbucks workers, Lynd and Gross make a compelling
case for solidarity unionism as an effective, resilient, and deeply
democratic approach to winning a voice on the job and in society.
Blending cutting-edge legal strategies for winning justice at work
with a theory of dramatic, bottom-up social change, this practical
guide to workers' rights aims to make work better while
reinvigorating the labor movement. A powerful organization model
called "solidarity unionism" is explained, showing how the labor
force can avoid the pitfalls of the legal system and utilize direct
action to win fair rights. The new edition includes new cases
governing fundamental labor rights and can be used not only by
union workers, but can serve as a guerrilla legal handbook for any
employee in this unstable economy.
The diverse contributors to this issue of Plough Quarterly focus on
what it means to be a peacemaker. Peacemaking, they show, is a
riskier and more ambitious undertaking than we may have imagined.
Today we must wage peace where thousands of children are being
murdered by militias or forced to fight as soldiers. We need
peacemakers in divided cities from Paris to Baltimore, peacemakers
in a culture with little tolerance for Christian witness, and
peacemakers in churches riven by ideological fights and petty
grudges, not to mention making peace with our spouses, and with
ourselves. Hear from active peacemakers on the frontlines of these
battles and explore insights on peacemaking from Thomas Merton,
Dorothy Day, Badshah Khan, Jeannette Rankin, Charles Spurgeon,
André Trocmé, Peace Pilgrim, Albert Schweitzer, Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, and Eberhard Arnold. And as always, Plough Quarterly
includes world-class art by the likes of Marc Chagall, Egon
Schiele, Lisa Toth, Carl Larsson, Ben Shahn, Mikalojus Konstantinas
ÄŒiurlionis, Paul Klee, Antonello da Messina, and others. Plough
Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to
put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth
articles, interviews, fiction, poetry, book reviews, and art to
help you put Jesus’ message into practice and find common cause
with others.
This collection of unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from
legendary activist-historian Staughton Lynd blends themes that
encourage the rejection of capitalist imperialism, while also
seeking a transition to a newly organized world. The dynamic
collection provides reminiscence and analysis of the 1960s and a
vision of how historians might immerse themselves in popular
movements while maintaining their obligation to tell the truth. A
final group of presentations, entitled "Possibilities," explores
nonviolence, resistance to empire as a way of life, and what a
working-class self-activity might mean in the 21st century.
To better understand the impact of social movements in recent
years, this analysis distinguishes strategies of social change into
two parts: organizing, which is characteristic of the 1960s
movement in the United States, and accompaniment, which was
articulated by Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador. Both are
valuable tools for understanding and promoting social movements; in
accompaniment, the promoter of social change and his or her
oppressed colleague view themselves as two experts, each bringing
indispensable experience to a shared project. Together, as equals,
they seek to create what the Zapatistas call "another world." The
author applies the distinction between accompaniment and organizing
to five social movements in which he has taken part: the labor and
civil rights movements, the antiwar movement, prisoner
insurgencies, and the movement sparked by Occupy Wall Street. Also
included are the experiences of the author's wife Alice Lynd, a
partner in these efforts, who has been a draft counselor and
advocate for prisoners in maximum-security confinement.
As bureaucratic labor unions are currently under assault throughout
the world, most have surrendered the achievements of the mid-20th
century, when the working class was a militant force for change. As
unions implode and weaken, workers are independently forming their
own unions, rooted in the tradition of syndicalism and
autonomism--and unions rooted in the tradition of self-directed
action are auguring a new period of class struggle throughout the
world. In Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, workers are
rejecting leaders and forming authentic class-struggle unions
rooted in sabotage, direct action, and striking to achieve concrete
gains. This is the first book to compile workers struggles on a
global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical
unions in the Global South and Global North. The tangible evidence
marshaled in this book serves as a handbook for understanding the
formidable obstacles and concrete opportunities for workers
challenging neoliberal capitalism, even as the unions of the old
decline and disappear. Contributors include Au Loong-Yu, Bai
Ruixue, Arup K. Sen, Shawn Hattingh, Piotr Bizyukov and Irina
Olimpieva, Genese M. Sodikoff, Aviva Chomsky, Dario Bursztyn,
Gabriel Kuhn, Erik Forman, Steven Manicastri, and Jack Kirkpatrick.
Much has changed for workers in the years since Staughton and Alice
Lynd's classic Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class
Organizers was first published in 1973. The New Rank and File
presents interviews with working-class organizers of the 1970s,
1980s, and 1990s who face the challenges of a new economy with the
same determination and creativity shown by those profiled in the
earlier book. Reflecting the increasing globalization of labor
practices and problems The New Rank and File contains oral
histories of workers in Guatemala, Palestine, Nicaragua, Mexico,
and Canada, as well as the United States.In their narratives,
rank-and-file workers from many different industries and workplaces
reveal the specific incidents and pervasive injustices that
triggered their activism. They discuss the frustrations they faced
in attempting to effect change through traditional means, and the
ways in which they have learned to advocate through innovation. In
an incisive introduction, the Lynds set forth their distinctive
perspective on the labor movement, with a focus on "solidarity
unionism": making decisions on the assumption that we all may be
leaders at one time or another rather than relying on static
hierarchies. Their insights, along with true stories told in the
organizers' own words, contain much to inspire a new generation of
workers and activists.Jim BrophyTony BudakAndrea CarneyChinese
Staff and Workers' AssociationCoalition of University EmployeesBill
DiPietroKay EisenhowerRich FeldmanThe Frente Autentico del
TrabajoMarshall GanzMia GiuntaMartin GlabermanMayra GuillenThe
Hebron Union of Workers and General Service PersonnelHugo
HernandezMargaret KeithElly LearyEd MannCharlie McCollesterVirginia
RomanVicky StarrGary StevensonMike StoutManuela Aju TambrizJames
TrevathanTriState Conference on SteelMauricio VallejosWorkers for
Ford in Mexico"
Much has changed for workers in the years since Staughton and Alice
Lynd's classic Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class
Organizers was first published in 1973. The New Rank and File
presents interviews with working-class organizers of the 1970s,
1980s, and 1990s who face the challenges of a new economy with the
same determination and creativity shown by those profiled in the
earlier book. Reflecting the increasing globalization of labor
practices and problems The New Rank and File contains oral
histories of workers in Guatemala, Palestine, Nicaragua, Mexico,
and Canada, as well as the United States.In their narratives,
rank-and-file workers from many different industries and workplaces
reveal the specific incidents and pervasive injustices that
triggered their activism. They discuss the frustrations they faced
in attempting to effect change through traditional means, and the
ways in which they have learned to advocate through innovation. In
an incisive introduction, the Lynds set forth their distinctive
perspective on the labor movement, with a focus on "solidarity
unionism": making decisions on the assumption that we all may be
leaders at one time or another rather than relying on static
hierarchies. Their insights, along with true stories told in the
organizers' own words, contain much to inspire a new generation of
workers and activists.Jim BrophyTony BudakAndrea CarneyChinese
Staff and Workers' AssociationCoalition of University EmployeesBill
DiPietroKay EisenhowerRich FeldmanThe Frente Autentico del
TrabajoMarshall GanzMia GiuntaMartin GlabermanMayra GuillenThe
Hebron Union of Workers and General Service PersonnelHugo
HernandezMargaret KeithElly LearyEd MannCharlie McCollesterVirginia
RomanVicky StarrGary StevensonMike StoutManuela Aju TambrizJames
TrevathanTriState Conference on SteelMauricio VallejosWorkers for
Ford in Mexico"
Contents: Foreword ix; I. Social Science in Crisis 1; II. The
Concept of "Culture" 11; III. The Pattern of American Culture 54;
IV. The Social Sciences as Tools 114; V. Values and the Social
Sciences 180; VI. Some Outrageous Hypotheses 202; Index 251
Originally published in 1939. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
In the 1960s historians on both sides of the Atlantic began to
challenge the assumptions of their colleagues and push for an
understanding of history "from below." In this collection,
Staughton Lynd, himself one of the pioneers of this approach,
laments the passing of fellow luminaries David Montgomery, E.P.
Thompson, Alfred Young, and Howard Zinn, and makes the case that
contemporary academics and activists alike should take more
seriously the stories and perspectives of Native Americans, slaves,
rank-and-file workers, and other still-too-frequently marginalized
voices.
Staughton Lynd is an American conscientious objector, Quaker,
peace activist and civil rights activist, tax resister, historian,
professor, author, and lawyer.
In this long-out-of-print oral history classic, Alice and Staughton
Lynd chronicle the stories of more than two dozen working-class
organizers who occupied factories, held sit-down strikes, walked
out, picketed, and found other bold and innovative ways to fight
for workers' rights.
"Rank and File" brings the militancy of these firebrand organizers
to life--whether it was in founding unions, challenging sexism and
racism, safety violations, and management intimidation, or working
for broader social changes.
"The strength of this book . . . encompasses a broad view of
history from the bottom up and deals not only with biographical
background of the nonelite in labor but with insights into black,
immigrant, and grassroots working-class history as
well."--"Choice"
Originally published in 1981.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
In the 1890s, Mississippi society still drew a sharp line between
its African American and white communities by creating a repressive
racial system that ensured white supremacy by legally segregating
black residents and removing their basic citizenship and voting
rights. Over the ensuing decades, white residents suppressed
African Americans who dared defy that system with an array of
violence, terror, and murder. In 1960, students supporting civil
rights moved into Mississippi and challenged this repressive racial
order by encouraging African Americans to reassert the rights
guaranteed under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the
United States Constitution. The ensuing social upheaval changed the
state forever. In Student Activism and Civil Rights in Mississippi,
James P. Marshall, a former civil rights activist, tells the
complete story of the quest for civil rights in Mississippi. Using
a voluminous array of sources as well as his own memories, Marshall
weaves together an astonishing account of student protestors and
local activists who risked their lives for equality, standing
between southern resistance and federal inaction. Their efforts,
and the horrific violence inflicted on them, helped push many
non-southerners and the federal government into action, culminating
in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting
Rights Act -- measures that destroyed legalized segregation and
disfranchisement. Ultimately, Marshall contends, student activism
in Mississippi helped forge a consensus by reminding the American
public of its forgotten promises and by educating the nation to the
fact that African Americans in the South deserved to live as free
and equal citizens.
Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in
movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and
Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with
workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Coming from
similar ethical backgrounds but with very different personalities,
the Lynds spent three years in an intentional community in
Northeast Georgia during the 1950s. There they experienced a way of
living that they later sought to carry into the larger society.
Both were educated to be teachers-Staughton as a professor of
history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children. But both
sought to address the social problems of their times through more
than their professions. After being involved in the Southern civil
rights movement and the movement against the war in Vietnam in the
1960s, both Staughton and Alice became lawyers. In the Youngstown,
Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of rank-and-file
organizations. After retirement, they became advocates for
prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under
supermaximum security conditions. Through trips to Central America
in the 1980s, Staughton and Alice became familiar with the concept
of "accompaniment." To them, accompaniment means placing themselves
at the side of the poor and oppressed, not as dispensers of charity
or as guilty fugitives from the middle class, but as equals in a
joint process to which each person brings an essential kind of
expertise. Throughout, the Lynds, who became Quakers in the early
1960s, have been committed to nonviolence. Their story will
encourage young people seeking lives of public service in the cause
of creating a better world.
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