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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Studies in labour history ; 13 |
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Studies in labour history (Liverpool University Press) ; 13.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. 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. |
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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. |
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Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Communism -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940.
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France -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Travailleurs des chemins de fer -- Syndicats -- France -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
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France -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1914-1940.
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France -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle.
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000.
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Industrialisation & industrial history.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- History.
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Communism
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Politics and government
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Railroads -- Employees -- Labor unions
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Social conditions
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France https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJd8gD4vdtqQMdQHvYqbBP
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Indexed Term |
communism |
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industrial relations |
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relations |
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railway workers |
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trade unionism |
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popular front |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: BEAUMONT, THOMAS. FELLOW TRAVELLERS. [Place of publication not identified] : LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS, 2019 1789620805 (OCoLC)1089435531 |
| ISBN |
9781789624915 (electronic bk.) |
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1789624916 (electronic bk.) |
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1789620805 |
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9781789620801 |
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AU@ 000066657551 |
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