Fellow Travellers
Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914-1939
Seiten
2019
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-78962-080-1 (ISBN)
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-78962-080-1 (ISBN)
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Fellow Travellers considers the origins and development of the Communist presence among French railway workers, how Communist activists adapted to the particular environment of railway industrial relations, and examines the foundations of what was to become one of the most powerful and enduring constituencies of Communist support in modern France.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
Fellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the trend and set down deep and lasting roots of support. They maintained this support even through the sectarian period of the Comintern’s shift to class against class, deepening their participation within railway industrial relations and gaining the experience of engagement with managers and state officials upon which they would build during the years of the Popular Front. Here France’s railway employees joined alongside their fellow workers in shaping a new social contract for workers, extending the principle of democratic representation into the workplace. While the Popular Front experiment proved shortlived, its influence was long lasting. In the post Liberation period, the key tenets of the Popular Front experience re-emerged within the nationalised SNCF, shaping the particular character of railway industrial relations – the peculiar mix of collaboration and hostile confrontation between management and workforce that continues to make the French railways one of the most contested sectors of the modern French economy.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
Fellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the trend and set down deep and lasting roots of support. They maintained this support even through the sectarian period of the Comintern’s shift to class against class, deepening their participation within railway industrial relations and gaining the experience of engagement with managers and state officials upon which they would build during the years of the Popular Front. Here France’s railway employees joined alongside their fellow workers in shaping a new social contract for workers, extending the principle of democratic representation into the workplace. While the Popular Front experiment proved shortlived, its influence was long lasting. In the post Liberation period, the key tenets of the Popular Front experience re-emerged within the nationalised SNCF, shaping the particular character of railway industrial relations – the peculiar mix of collaboration and hostile confrontation between management and workforce that continues to make the French railways one of the most contested sectors of the modern French economy.
Thomas Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in European History, Liverpool John Moores University.
AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Railway Workers at WarChapter 2: Railway Workers and the ‘Après Guerre’Chapter 3: Railway Workers and the Communist ChoiceChapter 4: StabilisationChapter 5: International ConnectionsChapter 6: ‘Hostile Participants’: Communists and Railway Industrial Relations in the Class against Class era, 1928-1934Chapter 7: Railway Workers and the Popular Front: Victory to Defeat, 1936-1939ConclusionBibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.11.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Studies in Labour History ; 13 |
| Verlagsort | Liverpool |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78962-080-5 / 1789620805 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78962-080-1 / 9781789620801 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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