Author
Weber Cannon; Lynn ; Vanneman; Reeve
Year
1987
Publisher
Temple University Press
Language
English
Pages
19
Last Update
28-Oct-2024
Keywords
Sociology ; Political Science
Conventional wisdom tells us that Americans are not class conscious. America’s workers seem to lack the desire for class struggle that motivates socialist movements around the world. France and Italy have large Communist parties that capture much of the working-class vote; Austria, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries have worker-based Social Democratic parties; England and Australia have Labour parties that have won elections and governed during some if not most of the post-World War II period. Throughout Europe, workers’ unions have sought not an accommodation to industrial capitalism but its replacement by a system of collective ownership. Working-class revolutions were fought...
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