LEADER 03173nam 2200409 450 001 9910477245403321 005 20230511162436.0 035 $a(CKB)5470000000569488 035 $a(NjHacI)995470000000569488 035 $a(EXLCZ)995470000000569488 100 $a20230511d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFellow Travellers $eCommunist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914-1939 /$fThomas Beaumont 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 271 pages) 225 1 $aStudies in labour history (Liverpool University Press) 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Railway Workers at War -- Chapter 2: Railway Workers and the 'Apres Guerre' -- Chapter 3: Railway Workers and the Communist Choice -- Chapter 4: Stabilisation -- Chapter 5: International Connections -- Chapter 6: 'Hostile Participants': Communists and Railway Industrial Relations in the Class against Class era, 1928-1934 -- Chapter 7: Railway Workers and the Popular Front: Victory to Defeat, 1936-1939 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. 330 $aFellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the trend and set down deep and lasting roots of support. They maintained this support even through the sectarian period of the Comintern's shift to class against class, deepening their participation within railway industrial relations and gaining the experience of engagement with managers and state officials upon which they would build during the years of the Popular Front. Here France's railway employees joined alongside their fellow workers in shaping a new social contract for workers, extending the principle of democratic representation into the workplace. While the Popular Front experiment proved shortlived, its influence was long lasting. In the post Liberation period, the key tenets of the Popular Front experience re-emerged within the nationalised SNCF, shaping the particular character of railway industrial relations - the peculiar mix of collaboration and hostile confrontation between management and workforce that continues to make the French railways one of the most contested sectors of the modern French economy. 410 0$aStudies in labour history (Liverpool University Press) 517 $aFellow Travellers 606 $aRailroads$xEmployees$xLabor unions 606 $aCommunism$zFrance$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aRailroads$xEmployees$xLabor unions. 615 0$aCommunism$xHistory 676 $a331.88113850967 700 $aBeaumont$b Thomas$0942249 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910477245403321 996 $aFellow travellers$92126250 997 $aUNINA