[Originally published in 1938 by Martin Secker and Warburg Ltd]
Anarchism: Its Aims and Purposes; The Proletariat and the Beginning of the Modern Labor Movement; The Forerunners of Syndicalism; The Objectives of Anarcho-Syndicalism; The Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism; The Evolution of Anarcho-Syndicalism.
1. Anarchism: Its Aims and Purposes
Anarchism versus economic monopoly and state power; Forerunners of modern Anarchism; William Godwin and his work on Political Justice; P.J. Proudhon and his ideas of political and economic decentralization; Max Stirner's work, The Ego and Its Own; M. Bakunin the Collectivist and founder of the Anarchist movement; P. Kropotkin the exponent of Anarchist Communism and the philosophy of Mutual Aid; An... (From: Spunk.org.)
3. The Forerunners of Syndicalism
Robert Owen and the English labor movement; The Grand National Consolidated Trade Union; William Benbow and the idea of the General Strike; The period of reaction; Evolution of the labor organizations in France; The International Workingmen's Association; The new conception of trade unionism; The idea of the labor councils; Labor councils versus dictatorships; Bakunin on the economic organization of the workers; The introduction of parliamentary politics by Marx and Engels and the end of the International.
The permeation of the labor movement by Socialist ideas early led to tendencies which had an unmistakable relationship to the revolutionary syndicalism of our day. These tendencies developed firs... (From: Anarchy Archives.)
4. The Objectives of Anarchosyndicalism
Anarcho-Syndicalism versus political socialism; Political parties and labor unions; Federalism versus
Centralism; Germany and Spain; The organization of Anarcho-Syndicalism; The impotence of political
parties for social reconstruction; The CNT in Spain: its aims and methods; Constructive work of the labor
syndicates and peasant collectives in Spain; Anarcho-Syndicalism and national politics; Problems of our
time.
Modern Anarcho-Syndicalism is a direct continuation of those
social aspirations which took shape in the bosom of the First
International and which were best understood and most strongly held by
the libertarian wing of the great workers' alliance. Its present day
rep... (From: Spunk.org.)
5. The Methods of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Anarcho-Syndicalism and political action; The Significance of political rights; Direct Action versus
Parliamentarism; The strike and its meaning for the workers; The Sympathetic Strike; The General Strike;
The Boycott; Sabotage by the workers; Sabotage by capitalism; The social strike as a means of social
protection; Anti-militarism.
It has often been charged against Anarcho-Syndicalism that it has
no interest in the political structure of the different countries, and
consequently no interest in the political struggles of the time, and
confines its activities to the fight for purely economic demands. This
idea is altogether erroneous and springs either from outright ignorance
or w... (From: Spunk.org.)
6. The Evolution of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Revolutionary Syndicalism in France and its Influence on the labor movement in Europe; The Industrial
Workers of the World; Syndicalism after the First World War; The Syndicalists and the Third International;
The founding of the new International Workingmen's Association; Anarcho-Syndicalism in Spain; In
Portugal; In Italy; In France; In Germany; In Sweden; In Holland; In South America.
The modern Anarcho-Syndicalist movement in Europe, with the single
exception of Spain where from the days of the First International
Anarcho-Syndicalism has always been the dominant tendency in the labor
movement, owes its origin to the rise of revolutionary Syndicalism in
France, with its field o... (From: Spunk.org.)
2. The Proletariat and the Beginning of the Modern Labor Movement
The era of machine production and modern Capitalism; The rise of the Proletariat; The first labor unions and their struggle for existence; Luddism; Trade Unionism pure and simple; Political radicalism and labor; The Chartist movement; Socialism and the labor movement.
Modern Socialism was at first only a profounder understanding of the interconnections in social life, an attempt to solve the contradictions implicit in the present social order and to give a new content to man's relations with his social environment. Its influence was, therefore, for a time confined to a little circle of intellectuals, who for the most part came from the privileged classes. Inspired with ... (From: Spunk.org.)