essay
A view of two major centers of Italian anarchism in the United States: Spring Valley and Chicago, Illinois
their languages, literature, and lives: proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, November 11-13, 1987 • Staten Island, New York • Published In 1990 • Pages: 271-296
By: Panofsky, Gianna S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the Italian anarchist movement in Spring Valley and Chicago, Illinois. The movement in the United States was lead by fugitive leaders from Europe and had its roots in an already radicalized Italian immigrant working class, who had been recruited from strike-torn areas of Europe. Panofsky discusses the character, writings and actions of the leaders; the relationship of anarchists to mutual-aid societies, socialist groups, and the church. Anarchist leaders were instrumental in organizing and leading unions in Spring Valley and elsewhere. The anarchist flame was dampened down and finally extinguished with the repression following President McKinley's assassination in 1901 and the United States involvement in the First World War (1917). A couple anarchist organizations and newspapers were revived after the War in Chicago, but their days of major influence were over.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sodalities
- Political movements
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- Not Specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1884-1945
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Spring Valley and Chicago, Ill., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gianna S. Panofsky
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-290)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90083301
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans