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Berghahn Books Forging Political Identity Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon France 1900-1939 2010 Edition by Keith Mann
Escaping the traditional focus on Paris, the author examines the divergent political identities of two occupational groups in Lyon, metal and silk workers, who, despite having lived and worked in the same city, developed different patterns of political practices and bore distinct political identities. This book also examines in detail the way that gender relations influenced industrial change, skill, and political identity. Combining empirical data collected in French archives with social science theory and methods, this study argues that political identities were shaped by the intersection of the prevailing political climate with the social relations surrounding work in specific industrial settings. Table of contents :- List of TablesAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsChapter I: Introduction: French Labor History and Political Identity The Cultural Turn, Postmodernism, and the Linguistic TurnA gendered labor historyMaterialismPolitics and Labor HistorySocial and Political IdentityPolitical Identity FormationIndustrial Social RelationsPolitical Opportunity StructureDesign of StudyChapter II: Industrial Social Relations in France's Second Industrial RevolutionProtoindutrializationProtoindustrialization and Class StructureIndustrial Change and LaborLabor MarketsSkillCollective ResistanceConclusionChapter III: The French Labor Movement and Worker Political IdentityTrade UnionsPolitical PartiesWorld War IFounding of the French Communist PartyChapter IV: Political OpportunityStructure from 1875 to 1921The Republic in LyonThe RadicalsThe Alliance in LyonWorld War IConclusionChapter V: Silk Workers in Lyon, 1900-1921: Structure of the Silk Industry World War I and Industrial ChangeApprenticeshipIndustrial Change and SkillRise of Capitalist Labor MarketIndustrial Change and Worker Collective ActionThe 1903 StrikeTextile Workers and PoliticsConclusionChapter VI: Metalworkers in Lyon, 1900-1921Structure of the IndustryGender and MetalworkingWar and Industrial DevelopmentIndustrial Change and SkillIndustrial Change, Metal Worker Resistance, and SolidarityApprenticeshipMetal Workers and PoliticsConclusionChapter VII: Political OpportunityStructure 1921-1935Two CurrentsThe Communist Party in LyonThe SFIO in LyonThe CGTU and the CGTSRThe CGT Programs in Action: Lyon 1919-1935May Day DemonstrationsConclusionChapter VIII: Silk Workers 1921-1935Structure of the Silk IndustryIndustrial Change and DeskillingRise of Capitalist Labor MarketIndustrial Change and Worker ProtestIndustrial Change and Worker SolidaritySilk Workers and PoliticsConclusionChapter IX: Metal Workers in Lyon, 1921-1935Structure of Metallurgy IndustryEmployers' OrganizationsIndustrial Change and Skill Worker ResistanceIndustrial Change and Metal Worker Militancy and SolidarityMetal Workers and Labor StrategyConclusionChapter X: The French Popular Front and Political IdentityOrigin of the Popular FrontThe PCF and the NationAlliances and ElectionsThe 1936 ElectionsThe Imagery of Class and NationIndustrial ConflictGender Inequality and Collective BargainingConclusionConclusion BibliographyIndex