Abstract
It’s all about the money, might be an irreverent but apt summary of Nicolas Delalande’s history of working-class solidarity in pre–World War I Europe. La lutte et l’entraide—the battle and mutual aid—investigates socialist internationalism from a new and interesting perspective, namely the money flows labor solidarity facilitated and relied on. Starting in 1864, Delalande traces the transnational exchanges of hard cash, services, and help in kind that underlay the First and the Second Socialist International, up to the First World War. Geographically Delalande focuses on the broader North Sea Region and the interactions between the socialist workers’ movements of Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. This self-professed “West-European-centric” bias (23) reflects the intense solidarity ties that bound this region together in the period under study. The U.S. labor movement, and particularly the Knights of Labor, makes a short guest appearance when Delalande discusses the...
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