Workers and Communists in France : From Popular Front to Eurocommunism /

Workers and Communists in France analyzes the relationship between the Parti Communiste Français (PCF) and Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), France's largest and most influential trade union organization. All trade union movements in advanced capitalist societies have had to develop mech...

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Main Author: Ross, George, 1940- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Edition:Reprint 2020.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE: The PCF and French Labor from the Popular Front to the Cold War
  • Chapter 1. ORIGINS
  • Chapter 2. TRANSMISSION BELT FOR A UNITED FRONT: THE CGT FROM RESISTANCE TO 1947
  • Chapter 3. THE COLD WAR YEARS: THE MASS ORGANIZATION AS TRANSMISSION BELT
  • PART TWO: Relative Autonomy or "Liberté Surveillée"?
  • Chapter 4. A WORLD OUT OF JOINT-THE END OF THE FOURTH REPUBLIC?
  • Chapter 5: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FIFTH REPUBLIC: THE ALGERIAN INTERLUDE AND BEYOND
  • Chapter 6. STRATEGIES AND COUNTER-STRATEGIES UNDER GAULLISM: RELATIVE AUTONOMY AND THE BEGINNINGS OF FRENCH EUROCOMMUNISM
  • Chapter 7. THE EVENTS OF MAY-JUNE 1968
  • PART THREE: The CGT and the Rise and Fall of French Eurocommunism
  • Chapter 8. AFTER MAY
  • Chapter 9. THE BRIEF LIFETIME OF UNION DE LA GAUCHE, 1972-1977
  • Chapter 10. THE RECKONING: 1978
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX