A Century of Organized Labor in France: A Union Movement for the Twenty-First Century?

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Acknowledgements Foreword G.Seguy Introduction: The Exceptional Trajectory of the French Labor Movement H.Chapman, M.Kesselman, M.A.Schain PART I: HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY: DECLINE OF MILITANTISM, INTER-UNION RELATIONS, AND RELATIONS WITH POLITICAL PARTIES Strategies and Events: The 'Form' of the CGT From 1936 to 1968 R.Mouriaux Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Unions and Politics in France A.Daley PART II: ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE The Restructuring of Capital and Employment J.Magniadas Technology and the Labor Movement: Constraint or Opportunity for the CGT? M.Kesselman PART III: UNIONS, SOCIETY, AND WORKER MOBILIZATION Immigration and Trade Unions in France: A Problem and an Opportunity M.A.Schain Trade Unions and the Diversification of Class Structure: Technical Culture and Criticism of Power G.Groux The French Strike and Social Divide: The End of Consensus Politics? B.H.Moss Women and French Unions: Historical Perspectives on the Current Crisis of Representation L.Levine Frader PART IV: UNIONS, PUBLIC OPINION, AMD THE STATE One Century Later: Unions in French Public Opinion - Representations, Images and Expectations R.Cayrol Labor, Power, and the State in France: Lessons of Industrial Restructuring W.Rand Smith Virtual Trade Unionism in France: A Commentary on The Question of Unions, Public Opinion, and the State C.Howell PART V: THE INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE: GLOBALIZATION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION The CGT's Internationalism: What Europe, What World? G.Ross The New International Trade Unionism J.Page About the Authors Index