Fellow Travellers : Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways, 1914-1939 / / Thomas Beaumont

• Autore: Beaumont Thomas
• Pubblicazione: Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 271 pages)
• Disciplina: 331.88113850967
• Soggetto topico: Railroads - Employees - Labor unions; Communism - France - History - 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Fellow Travellers
• Titolo autorizzato: Fellow travellers
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910477245403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in labour history (Liverpool University Press)