
The Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs, Vol. I
Tim Davenport
(Editor)Description
An extensive compilation of articles, speeches, press statements, and open letters by American socialist Eugene V. Debs, this book is the first in a six volume series that assembles much of Debs's work for the first time in a single place. The collection makes readily accessible approximately 150 documents by one of the pivotal figures in the labor movement. Illuminating nineteenth century working-class history, particularly the complex and shifting situation in the transportation industry, this volume provides a basis for deeper understanding of Debs and his role later during the glory days of the Socialist Party of America.
Product Details
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Publish Date | February 19, 2019 |
Pages | 728 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781608469727 |
Dimensions | 9.0 X 6.0 X 2.1 inches | 2.3 pounds |
About the Author
Tim Davenport, a resident of Corvallis, Oregon and a member of DSA, launched his Early American Marxism website (www.marxisthistory.org) in 2004 and has been a volunteer with Marxists Internet Archive for more than a decade. Writing as "Carrite," he has started more than 300 articles at Wikipedia and improved hundreds of others on topics relating to labor history and political biography. He is a member of the Organization of American Historians, Historians of American Communism, the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the Labor and Working-Class History Association. His previous book is The "American Exceptionalism" of Jay Lovestone and His Comrades [2015], co-edited with Paul LeBlanc and reissued as a Haymarket Books paperback in 2018.
David Walters lives in Pacifica, California, originally hails from New York City. Having been formally a member of several socialist organizations since High School in 1972, David was active in the labor movement and is now a retired member of IBEW 1245. He now dedicates himself toward the building of the Marxists Internet Archive which he helped found in the mid-1990s. Additionally he is the Director of the San Francisco based Holt Labor Library, a brick-and-mortar library for papers, documents and journals of the labor and revolutionary left.
Reviews
"Debs, the true 'Aristocrat of Labor, ' was the singular worker-intellectual who might have done almost anything he wanted. That he chose to sacrifice himself to labor solidarity in the Pullman Strike is, then, all the more remarkable, a dramatic prelude for the life that followed. Editors Tim Davenport and David Walters are to be congratulated and thanked for their earnest efforts." --Labor: Studies in Working Class History
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