The Correspondence between Roberto Michels and the Syndicalists

Giorgio Volpe

The Correspondence between Roberto Michels and the Syndicalists

Authors

Giorgio Volpe

University of Italian Swiss

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2894-6063

Keywords:

Roberto Michels, Syndicalism, Socialism, Partito socialista italiano, Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, Second International

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: School of Human and Social Sciences. Working Papers.

Pages: 293.

Language: Italian.

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-22333

Abstract: The book presents the correspondence between Roberto Michels and the Italian and French (Sorel and Lagardelle) syndicalists, which constitutes an essential historiographical source for the reconstruction of the controversial political biography of the sociologist. An introductory essay by Giorgio Volpe provides a critical interpretation of Michels' position within the socialist movement. It reconstructs the background of Michels' correspondences and studies the phases of his political militancy through the analysis of his political articles, sociological studies, autobiographical notes and reports on the Italian and German socialist parties' congresses.

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Author Biography

Giorgio Volpe, University of Italian Swiss

He is Post-doc Assistant at Università della Svizzera Italiana. After graduating in History at the University of Naples "Federico II", he was fellow of the Istituto italiano di Studi storici “Benedetto Croce” in Naples, where he advanced his research on Roberto Michels. He earned a PhD in History at the University of Naples "Federico II", with a thesis about the history of Italian Syndicalism (La disillusione socialista, 2015). Afterwards, he was Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University, wherenhe carried on a study about the reception of the elite theory in the United States, that will be the subject of a forthcoming publication.