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The Workers Themselves

1989 history book by Wayne Thorpe

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionJul 2, 2026

Entity authorityQ107709469 ↗

Source-derived summary

'The Workers Themselves': Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913–1923 is a 1989 history book written by Wayne Thorpe on the international development of syndicalism.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Workers Themselves” as 1989 history book by Wayne Thorpe. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1913, 1923, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Workers, Themselves and history can be independently traced.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 1989 history book by Wayne Thorpe. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107709469. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1913, 1923 and 1989.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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Expand the search: follow The Workers Themselves primary sources, The Workers Themselves archive and Workers research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Workers Themselves” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.