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A Survey of Brazilian and Argentine Materials at the Internationaal Instituut Voor Sociale Geschiedenis in Amsterdam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Eric Gordon ,
Michael M. Hall  and
Hobart A. Spalding Jr.
Eric Gordon
Affiliation:
Manchester Community College
Michael M. Hall
Affiliation:
Newcomb College, Tulane University
Hobart A. Spalding Jr.
Affiliation:
Brooklyn College
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The International Instituut Voor Sociale Geschiedenis, or International Institute of Social History, located in Amsterdam, is well known as one of the world's leading centers for research on the history of labor movements and leftist political parties. It is also a major depository of archival material. However, scholars have largely neglected the Institute's extraordinary collection of Latin American materials. The purpose of this article is to describe the two largest bodies of Latin American holdings, those pertaining to Argentina and Brazil. For reasons of space, we have kept annotations to a minimum and have included only materials published before 1940, since they constitute by far the most significant portion of the Institute's Latin American collection.

Type
Report
Information
Latin American Research Review , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Fall 1973 , pp. 27 - 77
Copyright
Copyright © 1973 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. The Argentine collection has been used by, among others: Yaakov Oved of the University of Tel Aviv; Hobart A. Spalding, Jr.; Richard Yoast, now completing a dissertation at the University of Wisconsin; and Gonzalo Zaragosa of Simon Fraser University. Eric Gordon and Michael Hall have both used the Brazilian holdings.

2. Additional information about the Institute in International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam: History and Activities (Assen, 1968). The Institute has published an Index of the Archives and Collections in the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (No. 1–1968) which outlines its holdings and may be obtained directly from the Institute.

3. There is an informative essay on Nettlau in Arthur Lehning, From Buonarroti to Bakunin: Studies in International Socialism (Leiden, 1970), 16–20.

4. Unavoidable inconsistencies exist in the bibliographical citations in this article. These stem from several roots: many anarchist publications did not include complete information; the cataloging, done over a period of time, is uneven; the authors could not examine every item; and some of the uncataloged material is partially damaged. We have tried to follow the original spelling as closely as possible and to include as much information in each entry as feasible.

5. On the Cecília experiment, see Newton Stadler de Souza, O anarquismo da colonia Cecilia (Rio de Janeiro, 1970), Pier Carlo Masini, Storia degli anarchici italiani da Bakunin a Malatesta (Milan, 1969), 247–250, 337–341, and the somewhat novelistic account by Afonso Schmidt, Colônia Cecília: Uma aventura anarquista na América (São Paulo, 1942).

6. Azis Simão, Sindicato e estado (São Paulo, 1966) is the best historical treatment but is limited to São Paulo. Edgard Carone includes a good survey of the pre-1930 working class in A república velha: instituições e classes sociais (São Paulo, 1970), 189–245. Everardo Dias, História das lutas sociais no Brasil (São Paulo, 1962) is an informative memoir and there are several items of historical interest reprinted in Edgard Leuenroth, Anarquismo: roteiro da libertação social (Rio de Janeiro, 1963).

José Albertino Rodrigues, Sindicato e desenvolvimento no Brasil (São Paulo, 1968), and Leôncio Martins Rodrigues, Conflito industrial e sindicalismo no Brasil (São Paulo, 1966), are works by sociologists which include interpretations of the early period. Two recent studies are Antônio Carlos Bernardo, “Aspectos da evolução do movimento operário brasileiro,” Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brésilien, 13 (1969), 49–61, and Maria Luiza Marcilio, “Industrialisation et mouvement ouvrier à São Paulo au début du XXe siècle,” Le mouvement social, 53 (1965), 112–129.

Other works of interest are Hermínio Linhares, Contribuição à história das lutas operárias no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1955), Edgar Rodrigues, Socialismo e sindicalismo no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1969), and Moniz Bandeira, Clovis Melo, and A. T. Andrade, O ano vermelho: a revolução russa e seus reflexos no Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1967).

7. On periodization see Hobart A. Spalding, Jr., “The Parameters of Labor in Hispanic America,” Science and Society, 36:2: 302–216 and Kenneth P. Erickson, Patrick V. Peppe, Hobart A. Spalding, Jr., and Steve Volk, “The Evolution of Working Class Movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Chile: Some Working Hypotheses for Comparative Research,” (Typescript, Rutgers University, Latin American Institute, Conference on Labor and Social Change in the Americas, New Brunswick, N.J., April 1973). On the Argentine movement prior to 1940 see, among others: Samuel L. Bailey, Labor, Nationalism, and Politics in Argentina (New Brunswick, N.J., 1967), Chs. I—III for an overview; Sebastián Marotta, El movimiento sindical argentino, 2 vols. (Buenos Aires, 1960–61), which covers through the late 1920s; Hobart A. Spalding, Jr., La clase trabajadora argentina. Documentos para su historia, 1890–1912 (Buenos Aires, 1970); and Miguel Murmis and Juan Carlos Portantiero, Estudios sobre los orígenes del peronismo (Buenos Aires, 1971), which is the best analysis of the 1930s.