For socialists at the turn of the last century, reading was a radical act. This interdisciplinary study looks at how American socialists used literacy in the struggle against capitalism.
Introduction: ‘Workers of the World, Read!’; Chapter 1 ‘The Workingman’s Bible’ and the Making of American Socialism; Chapter 2 Charles H. Kerr & Company and the Americanization of Marxian Socialism; Chapter 3 Activist Readers and American Socialists’ Print Culture of Dissent; Chapter 4 How the Socialist Party Created a Print Culture of Dissent Without a Party-Owned Press; Chapter 5 Information Management and the Socialist Party’s Information Department and Research Bureau; Chapter 6 Annotations on the Failure of Socialism in America; Chapter 7 Conclusion: What a Book Cannot Do;
