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Author Perry, Matt, 1967-

Title Prisoners of want [electronic resource] : the experience and protest of the unemployed in France, 1921-45 / Matt Perry.

Imprint Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 296 p. : ill.
Series Studies in labour history
Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm))
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-284) and index.
Contents The experience of unemployment in France between the wars -- Movements of the unemployed in the 1920s -- The Parisian unemployed movement, 1930-33 -- Early regional unemployed movements, 1931-33 -- The Lille to Paris hunger march -- After the hunger march : the rising militancy of the unemployed in 1934 -- The coming of the Popular Front and the unemployed movements -- The Popular Front government and the unemployed -- Unemployment and the war years, 1940-45.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Front populaire -- History -- 20th century.
Parti communiste francais -- History -- 20th century.
Unemployed -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Manpower policy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Labor movement -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780754656074 (alk. paper)
0754656071 (alk. paper)

 
    
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