Is the study of nationalism in relation to working-class movements and working-class internationalism turning in new directions? The editors of this collection of essays believe that “historians in recent decades have begun to extend the study of working-class internationalism beyond the Internationals, on one hand, and the largely institutional studies of international trade union and union federations on the other” (13). This is a strange claim when considering the seminal works in working-class social history, such as E. P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class, published more than half a century ago, in 1963, and representative of much of the scholarship in the journal Past and Present, founded in 1953. The editors do cite a 2012 article from International Labor and Working-Class History on Indian labor history in a note (13, 14n21), but in their main text they do not mention this scholarly journal, which began...
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