Claiming the City av Shelton Stromquist

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<b>How workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic - and what the lessons are for today.</b><br><br>For more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting to make cities livable and democratic. At every turn propertied elites challenged their right to govern.<br> <br>Prominent US labor historian, Shelton Stromquist, offers the first global account of the origins of this new <i>trans-local</i> socialist politics. He explains how and why cities after 1890 became crucibles for municipal socialism.<br> <br>Drawing on the colorful stories of local activists and their social-democratic movements in cities as diverse as Broken Hill, Christchurch, Malmö, Bradford, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Hamilton, OH, the book shows how this new urban politics arose.<br> <br>Long governed by propertied elites, cities in the nineteenth century were transformed by mass migration and industrialization that to