| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 13-31 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | International Labor and Working-Class History |
| Volume | 30 |
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| State | Published - Dec 1986 |
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In: International Labor and Working-Class History, Vol. 30, 12.1986, p. 13-31.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The Political Life of the Rank and File
T2 - French Aircraft Workers during the Popular Front, 1934–38
AU - Chapman, Herrick
N1 - Funding Information: This essay is a revised and expanded version of a paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 6-7, 1984. I wish to thank Michael Seidman and David Montgomery for their comments on the original paper, and Liz Cohen, Lynn Hunt, Carl Landauer, William Reddy, and my colleagues in the social history reading group at Stanford University for their helpful criticisms of a subsequent draft. I also wish to acknowledge the Social Science Research Council and the Hays-Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship Program which provided funds for my research. 1. For a description of the march see Jean-Paul Depretto and Sylvie V. Schweitzer, Le Com munisme a I'Usine: Vie ouvriere et mouvement ouvrier chez Renault 1920-1939 (Paris, 1984), 186. 2. For interpretations that stress the role militants played in labor protest during the Popular Front, see Bernard Badie, "Les Greves du front populaire aux usines Renault," Le Mouvement social 81 (Oct.-Dec. 1972); Raymond Hainsworth, "Les Greves du front populaire de mai et juin 1936: Une nouvelle analyse fondee sur l'etude de ces greves dans le bassin houiller du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais," Le Mouvement social 96 (July-Sept. 1976); Depretto and Schweitzer, Le Com-munisme. For interpretations which stress the indigenous sources of working-class radicalism and the conservative role of the PCF, see Simone Weill, "La Vie ouvriere et la greve des ouvrieres metallos," La Revolution protetarienne (1936); Daniel Guerin, Front populaire, revolution man-quie (Paris, 1970); Jacques Danos and Marcel Gibelin, Juin 36 (2 volumes, Paris, 1972); Arthur Mitzman, "The French Working Class and the Blum Government (1936-1937)," in Contemporary France: Illusion, Conflict and Regeneration, ed. by John C. Cairns (New York, 1978); and Michael Seidman, "The Birth of the Weekend and the Revolts Against Work: The Workers of the Paris Region during the Popular Front (1936-1938)," French Historical Studies 12 (Fall 1981). Several historians have viewed the strikes of June 1936 as largely spontaneous but have not viewed workers as particularly radical in their aspirations or in their rejection of industrial discipline. See Georges Lefranc, Histoire du front populaire (Paris, 1965) and Juin 36: "L'explosion sociale" (Paris, 1966); Antoine Prost, "Les Greves de juin 1936: essai d'interpretation," in Lion Blum, chef du governement 1936-1937 (Paris, 1967); and Henri Prouteau, Les Occupations d'usines en Italie et en France, 1920-1936 (Paris, 1938).
PY - 1986/12
Y1 - 1986/12
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JO - International Labor and Working-Class History
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