How Leaders Mobilize Workers - Social Democracy, Revolution, and Moderate Syndicalism

This book explains why leaders chose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and why it matters.

List of contents

1. Introduction: a theory of national variation in interest mobilization; 2. Outcomes: dominant models of class politics and institutionalization success; 3. Environments: national differences in labor inclusion; 4. Agency: constraints, choice alternatives, and decision-making; 5. Choices: explaining variation in dominant models of class politics; 6. Consequences: explaining differences in institutionalization success; 7. Conclusion: causes and consequences of variation in interest mobilization.

About the author

Konstantin Vössing is currently an associate professor of political science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He was previously a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and then a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute, Florence.

Summary

This book combines a thorough analysis of class politics in twenty countries between 1863 and 1919 with a general theory of political mobilization focusing on individual leadership. It explains why leaders chose social democracy, revolution, or moderate syndicalism to mobilize workers, and shows what lasting consequences their choices produced.

Product details

• Authors: Konstantin (Humboldt-Universitat Zu Berl Voessing, Konstantin (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin) Voessing, Konstantin (Humboldt-Universitat Zu Berli Vossing, Konstantin Vössing
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781316616925
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61692-5
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Society & culture: general, Political leaders & leadership, Political structures: democracy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Sociology: work & labour, Society and culture: general, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Political leaders and leadership, Constitution: government & the state, Marxism & Communism, Anarchism, Sociology: work and labour, Constitution: government and the state