Author Description

In the first book-length history of the Italian American syndicalist movementOCothe Italian Socialist FederationOCoMichael Miller Topp presents a new way of understanding the Progressive Era labor movement in relation to migration, transnationalism, gender, and class identity. Those without a Country demonstrates that characterizations of old (pre-1960s) social movements as predominantly class-based are vastly oversimplifiedOCoand contribute to current debates about the implications of identity politics for the American Left and American culture generally."