ABSTRACT
First published in 1984. This volume brings together many of the foremost French and North American specialists on the French working class movement. Although they differ substantially in their theoretical and ideological orientation, they share a left perspective. Their original essays provide a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the history of the movement, focusing on the constraints and opportunities created by the economic crisis of the 1970s and the political change ushered in by the Socialist Party’s victory in 1981.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|2 pages
The Crisis of Capitalist Regulation and the Crisis of the Workers’ Movement
part Two|2 pages
The Evolution of French Trade Unions
part Three|2 pages
“New Problems”
part Four|2 pages
Forms of Mobilization
part Five|2 pages
The Trade Union Movement, Politics, and the State