Every factory a fortress : the French labor movement in the age of Ford and Hitler / Michael Torigian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torigian, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metal-workers--Labor unions--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Metal-workers.

Strikes and lockouts--Metal-workers--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Strikes and lockouts.

Labor movement--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Labor movement.

Industrial productivity.

History.

Industrial mobilization.

Labor unions and communism.

Strikes and lockouts--Metal-workers.

Metal-workers--Labor unions.

France--Paris.

Labor unions and communism--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Industrial mobilization--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Industrial productivity--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

French labor movement in the age of Ford and Hitler

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [1999]

Summary:

French trade unions played a historical role in the 1930s quite unlike that of any other labor movement. Against a backdrop of social unrest, parliamentary crisis, and impending world war, industrial unionists in the great metal-fabricating plants of the Paris Region carried out a series of street mobilizations, factory occupations, and general strikes that were virtually unique in Western history.

The unionization of the metal industry, following a series of anti-fascist demonstrations and plant seizures, would constitute the defining episode in modern French labor history and one of the great chapters in European social history. Yet little is known of these extraordinary events.

Contents:

1 Mass Production and the Industrial Working Class 1

2 The Labor Movement in the Paris Metal Industry 27

3 The Crisis 47

4 Jacobins in Blue Denim 65

5 The Occupation of the Factories 93

6 The People's Front in the Shops 121

7 Between the Hammer and the Anvil 150

8 The Battle for the War Factories 174.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255) and index.

ISBN:

0821412752

OCLC:

40230139