Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement

Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement

by Kenneth H. Tucker Jr.
ISBN-10:
1592137644
ISBN-13:
9781592137640
Pub. Date:
04/09/2010
Publisher:
Temple University Press
ISBN-10:
1592137644
ISBN-13:
9781592137640
Pub. Date:
04/09/2010
Publisher:
Temple University Press
Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement

Workers of the World, Enjoy!: Aesthetic Politics from Revolutionary Syndicalism to the Global Justice Movement

by Kenneth H. Tucker Jr.
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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781592137640
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 04/09/2010
Series: Politics History & Social Chan
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Kenneth H. Tucker, Jr. is Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College, and author of Classical Social Theory: A Contemporary Approach, Anthony Giddens and Modern Social Theory, French Revolutionary Syndicalismand the Public Sphere, and (with Barbara Tucker) Industrializing Antebellum America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 
Introduction

Part I. Theoretical Reflections 
1. Public Life, Aesthetics, and Social Theory 
2. Social Movements and Aesthetic Politics 
3. Identity, Knowledge, Solidarity, and Aesthetic Politics

Part II. History and Social Movements 
4. The World Is a Stage and Life Is a Carnival: The Rise of the Aesthetic Sphere and Pop u lar Culture 
5. Labor and Aesthetic Politics: French Revolutionary Syndicalism, the IWW, and Fascism 
6. The Flowering of Aesthetic Politics: May 1968, the New Social Movements, and the Global Justice Movement

Conclusion 
Notes 
Index

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