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Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Cities and the Origins of Labor Politics -- Part I: Municipal Origins and the Rise of Labor -- Introduction: "Paris Is Burning": The Paris Commune and Historical Memory -- 1. The Rise of Cities and Elite Traditions of Urban Governance -- 2. Labor Conflict and the New Working-Class Politics -- Part II: City Politics, Municipal Socialism, and Labor's Fight for Urban Space -- Introduction: Claiming Political Space: The Municipal Franchise and the Limits of Urban Citizenship -- 3. Laborism and a New Urban Politics: England -- 4. "Like a Pike in a Carp Pond": Municipal Socialism in Germany -- 5. Contested Cities Down Under: New Zealand and Australia -- 6. Battling for Labor's Local Political Space: United States -- 7. Promises of Power: Internationalism from Below -- Part III: The Crises of War, Nationalism, and the Social Reconstruction of Cities -- Introduction: "The Brink of the Abyss": The Great War and the Collapse of the Second International -- 8. War! Shifting Currents of Localism, Nationalism, and Internationalism -- 9. The Wartime Politics of Everyday Life in Britain -- 10. Opposing Conscription and War on the Urban Periphery: The Antipodes and the United States -- 11. War and Revolution: The Home Front in Germany's Wartime Cities -- 12. A Democratic Moment: "Red Vienna" and the Promise of Social Democratic Cities in the Postwar Era -- Epilogue: Whither Social Democracy in Cities? -- Acknowledgments -- Lists of Maps and Photos -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index.

The labor problem and the crisis of the old order -- Constituting progressivism -- The politics of reform -- Communities of reformers -- Class bridging and the world of female reform -- The boundaries of difference -- Class wars and the crisis of progressivism -- Conclusion: war and the ragged edges of reform

In Solidarity and Survival, three generations of Iowa workers tell of their unrelenting efforts to create a labor movement in the coal mines and on the rails, in packinghouses and farm equipment plants, on construction sites and in hospital wards. Drawing on nearly one thousand interviews collected over more than a decade by oral historians working for the Iowa Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, Shelton Stromquist presents the resonant voices of the men and women who defined a new, prominent place for themselves in the lives of their communities and in the politics of their state.