The Rise of the Paris Red Belt

• Autore: Stovall Tyler
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2018; ©1990
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.2/0944/361
• Soggetto topico: HISTORY / Europe / General
• Soggetto non controllato: 20th century paris; bobigny government; bobigny politics; bobigny; class relations in paris; cultural identity of french working class; french communism; french labor issues; french red belt; french working class politics; french working class; history of modern france; modern france; paris government; paris politics; paris urban history; parisian slums; social history of france; suburban slums of paris; urban development in paris; working class paris
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: The Growthof Working-Class Suburbia -- 1. The Suburbanization of the Paris Region -- 2. The Urbanization of Bobigny -- 3. The People of Bobigny -- Part Two: The Origins of Suburban Communism -- 4. Electoral Politics in Bobigny -- 5. The Communist Municipality of Bobigny -- 6. Culture, Politics, and Community in Communist Bobigny -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Jean-Marie Clamamus, Bobigny's Red Patriarch -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Tyler Stovall explores the nature of working-class life and politicization as he skillfully documents how this unique region and political culture came into being. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt reveals that the very process of urban development in metropolitan Paris and the suburbs provided the most important opportunities for the local establishment of Communist influence. The rapid increase in Paris' suburban population during the early twentieth century outstripped the development of the local urban infrastructure. Consequently, many of these suburbs, often represented to their new residents as charming country villages, soon degenerated into suburban slums. Stovall argues that Communists forged a powerful political block by mobilizing the disillusionment and by improving some of the worst aspects of suburban life. As a social history of twentieth-century France, The Rise of the Paris Red Belt calls into question traditional assumptions about the history of both French Communism and the French working-class. It suggests that those interested in working-class politics should consider the significance of residential and consumer issues as well as those relating to the workplace. It also suggests that urban history and urban development should not be considered autonomous phenomena, but rather expressions of class relations. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt brings to life a world whose citizens, though often overlooked, are nonetheless the history of modern France. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates; University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Rise of the Paris Red Belt
• ISBN: 0-520-37846-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911009253003321
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