Working women and socialist politics in France, 1880-1914 : a regional study / Patricia Hilden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hilden, Patricia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women textile workers--France--Lille Region--Case studies.

Women textile workers.

Women labor union members--France--History.

Women labor union members.

Socialism--France--History.

Socialism.

History.

France.

France--Lille Region.

Physical Description:

x, 307 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.

Summary:

This enlightening study of the relations between the Marxist wing of the French socialist movement and a substantial female industrial proletariat reveals the failure of the Socialists to assimilate an important potential constituency. Hilden examines the early development of French socialism and recreates the atmosphere of everyday life for textile workers in Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing around the turn of the century. She shows that these women demonstrated more political militance in the face of their worsening industrial situation and their exclusion from organized labor resistance than has previously been suggested.

Contents:

1 Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing in the belle epoque 9

2 La Vie intime 33

3 The Textile Mills 65

4 Women Workers, the Textile Unions, and Mass Protest, 1880-1914 123

5 Women in Guesdist Politics, 1880-1897 170

6 Women and Socialism, 1897-1914 224

Appendix Marriage and Waged Work, the Debate 278.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 280-200.

ISBN:

0198219350 :

OCLC:

12371285