In an in-depth comparative analysis, Stefano Bartolini studies the history of socialism and working-class politics in Western Europe. While examining the social contexts, organizational structures and political developments of thirteen socialist experiences from the 1880s to the 1980s, he reconstructs the steps through which social conflict was translated and structured into an opposition, as well as how it developed its different organizational and ideological forms, and how it managed more or less successfully to mobilize its reference groups politically. Bartolini provides a comparative framework that structures the wealth of material available on the history of each unit and allows him to assess the relative weight of the complex explanatory factors.
- ISBN13 9780521650212
- Publish Date 28 August 2000
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 11 September 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 664
- Language English