From the little stuff I’ve been reading lately by historians and the time spent around some historians, I get the sense that at least some developments in the field of history are attributed to social circumstances - women’s history and gender history as responses to feminism and queer liberation, ethnic and immigration history as part of responses to civil rights and more militant groups, etc.
I could be wrong, but my sense is there’s not been a lot of recent work on the IWW, compared with other moments. There was work in the 60s, which I believe Dubofsky credited to the new left. Bruno Cartosio told me he and others in the Italian new left, around the Primo Maggio journal, turned to the IWW as a resource for non-leninist organization. I’m curious as to what the various and interconnecting trends might be related to the relative lack of work on the IWW. Have to think more on that.
When did you meet Bruno Cartosio?
Have you had a chance to read the interview with him from Futuro Anteriore?
Comment by Steve — February 24, 2007 @ 10:01 am
hi Steve,
I didn’t meet him, I just wrote him an email. I was poking around in the electronic list of stuff in Harry Cleaver’s archive (which reminds me, I need to write him and ask if he’s willing to photocopy some stuff for me), and Cartosio’s name came up a bunch of times. There’s also a new IWW monograph just out in Italian, maybe in 2004 or something, I forget the title and author just now, and Cartosio said a new anthology with IWW stuff in it is coming out, which he’s going to have some stuff in. I didn’t realize he’d done an interview with FA, I’ll have to look that up.
take care,
Nate
Comment by Nate — February 24, 2007 @ 7:50 pm