Title: Forging revolution : metalworkers, managers, and the State in St. Petersburg, 1890-1914 /
Authors: Hogan, Heather, 1949-
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Metal-workers Russia Saint Petersburg History.; Industrial relations Russia Saint Petersburg History.; Metal-workers Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg History.; Industrial relations Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg History.
Abstract: Led by a powerful group of entrepreneurs, financiers, and engineers who spearheaded the drive to industrialize Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, the metalworking industry in St. Petersburg, paradoxically, employed Imperial Russia's most militant workers. Forging Revolution explores the competing interests and claims of labor, employers, and the state in an effort to understand why the metalworking industry became a principal site of urban unrest in the period from 1890 to 1914. The book argues that changes in the administration, organization, and technology of heavy industry, initially designed by employers to augment the profitability of their industry, ultimately contributed in an important way to the extraordinary militance of metal-workers by the outbreak of World War I.
Contents: I. Petersburg's Metalworking Industry in the Post-Emancipation Era -- II. The Industrialization of the 1890s -- III. The Emerging Crisis, 1900-1904 -- IV. Labor-Management Conflict in the Revolution of 1905 -- V. Rethinking Labor Relations "From Above": State Managers and the Entrepreneurial Elite in 1906 -- VI. The Changing Nature of Metalworker Activism in 1906-1907 -- VII. Financiers, Employers, and Engineers: Confronting the Imperatives of Economic Modernization -- VIII. Rationalizing the Metalworking Industry -- IX. The Uneven Struggle in the Years before Lena -- X. Labor and Management in Conflict, 1912-1914.