Charles H. Kerr

Charles Hope Kerr (1860-1944),^[1] a son of abolitionists, was a vegetarian and Unitarian in 1886 when he established Charles H. Kerr & Co. in Chicago. Over the years, his company became a leading publisher of socialist, anarchist, and Wobbly works. Kerr was noted for his translation from the French of the radical workers' anthem, "The Internationale;" his version became the English words sung in the United States (although a different, anonymous English translation is sung in Britain and Ireland). Kerr's version was widely circulated in the Little Red Songbook of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Bibliography

1. The International Socialist Review (ISR), 1900^[2]
2. The Militant Proletariat,^[3]

Footnotes

Further reading

• Allen Ruff, "We Called Each Other Comrade": Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Works

• "What Socialism Is," International Socialist Review, vol. 18, no. 4 (October 1917), pp. 197–200.

External links

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Charles Hope Kerr

• http://www.marxists.org/subject/usa/eam/spapubs-kerrlist.html Works published by the company during Kerr's lifetime
• Charles H. Kerr Company Records at the Newberry Library