The Memory of Labour and Social Movements: A Global Perspective
Edited by Jügren Mittag and Berthold Unfried (with assistance of Eva Himmelstoss)
ITH Conference Proceedings, vol. 45
Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsanstalt 2011
280 pages, ISBN 978-3-931982-73-7
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In the extensive debates on the concept of “collective memory” in the last two decades, the role of labour movements remained largely disregarded so far. The contributions of this collection analyze the role of labour organizations and social movements in “collective memory” defined as the repertoire of specific re-presentations of the past in public. Why are in Europe catastrophes, wars and genocides key issues of official “memory” in this sense while social movements, the promotion of welfare states by labour movements and the formation of relatively homogenous societies do not get comparable attention? The focus of the contributions to this volume is set on the “memory” of labour and social movements in a global perspective beyond Europe. A second angle turns the attention on strategies of politics of memory developed by these movements.
Contents
Introduction
Arbeiterbewegungen als Akteure und als Objekte kollektiver Erinnerungsprozesse
in globaler Perspektive
Jürgen Mittag/Berthold Unfried
Traces of Labour in European and Western Memory
European Memories: Entangled Perspectives
Enzo Traverso
Arbeiterbewegungen in der europäischen Erinnerung
des 20. Jahrhunderts: Ein Aufriss
Jürgen Kocka
Die Historiografie der europäischen Arbeiterbewegung:
Von der Erinnerungskultur zur Erinnerung an eine Zukunft?
Mario Keßler
The Changing Memories of World War II and the Resistance
in Italy and France: A Comparative View
Bruno Groppo/Filippo Focardi
Die deutsche Sozialdemokratie in den geschichtspolitischen
Auseinandersetzungen der 1970er und 80er Jahre
Bernd Faulenbach
Österreichische Geschichtspolitik in den 1970er
und 1980er Jahren: Historiografische Anmerkungen und persönliche Beobachtungen
Helmut Konrad
‘Socialism is … the desire to be mates’: ‘Mateship’
and the Cultural Politics of the fin de siècle Australian
Labour Movement
Nick Dyrenfurth
Labour and Social Movements in Asia and
Latin America
The Memory of Labour Overshadowed: Latin America’s
Labour Movements
Gerardo Leibner
The South Korean Labour Movement and the Memory of
Chun Tae-Il: Resistance Memory or Public Memory?
Hyun Back Chung
Collective Memory, Labour and Nationhood: The Public
and the Private in Remembering the Indonesian Past
Ratna Saptari
Memorial Strategies of Social Movements
Antikoloniale Geschichtspolitik: Theoretische Standortbestimmung
einer globalgeschichtlichen Forschungsfrage
Berthold Molden
Historico-political Strategies of Scandinavian Feminist
Movements: Prelimiary Perspectives of a Research Project
Ulla Manns
The Memory of “Solidarnosc”: A View on
Poland’s Largest Trade Union 30 Years after its Birth
Tomasz Kozlowski
Conclusion
„The Memory of Labour – Arbeiterbewegungen
in globalen Erinnerungsprozessen“: Eine Tagungsbilanz
Jens Kroh
Notes on Contributors