REVOLUTIONARY SYNDICALISM IN FRANCE by F.F. Ridley ( 9780521089067 )

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REVOLUTIONARY SYNDICALISM IN FRANCE
THE DIRECT ACTION OF ITS TIME

By:

F.F. Ridley

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0521089069

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9780521089067

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 July, 2008

Pages:

288

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A comprehensive study of the ideas and practice of the French Labour Movement between 1900 and 1914.

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A comprehensive study of the ideas and practice of the French Labour Movement between 1900 and 1914. Part one sets the syndicalist movement against its historical background, pointing to the forces which helped to shape the attitudes of the French worker, French political culture, economic developments, the influence of earlier socialist and anarchist thinkers and the failure of parliamentary democracy. The central section examines in detail the ideological development of the French Labour Movement during the syndicalist phase. As Professor Ridley points out, syndicalist ideas are interesting in their own right as part of the history of socialist thought but also because many of them are echoed today by supporters of the 'extra-parliamentary opposition'. There are obvious parallels too, between the 'direct action' of syndicalism and the tactics of present-day movements. In a final section professor Ridley discusses syndicalism in the wider political and ideological context of its time, taking into account the development of the inter-war years.

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