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Michael Miller Topp, Those Without a Country: The Political Culture of Italian American Syndicalists. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 352 pp. $63.95 cloth; $22.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2004

Thomas A. Guglielmo
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame

Extract

Michael Miller Topp's Those Without a Country details the history of a generation of Italian–American syndicalists–leftists who advocated “revolution achieved through increasingly confrontational strikes waged by militant unions” (1) from the turn of the century to the late-1920s trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Drawing primarily on left-wing Italian-language newspapers, some Italian state archival materials, and a range of secondary sources in Italian and English, Topp focuses on several themes: the transnational nature of Italian-American syndicalists' ideas, institutions, and strategies; the complex interplay between syndicalists' masculinist, working-class, and Italian identities; and the significance this admittedly small number of syndicalists had on immigrant communities in the United States, on foreign policy in Italy, and on the Left in both.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS
Copyright
© 2003 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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