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FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY SYNDICALISM AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
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| By: |
Kenneth H. Tucker, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521021448 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521021449 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 July, 2005 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies |
| Pages: |
296 |
| Description: |
Combines social (Habermas) and cultural theory with history of major union in early twentieth-century France. |
| Synopsis: |
This study explores the evolution of the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT), and its interaction with the French public sphere, between 1900 and 1920. Kenneth Tucker examines the triumph of this productivism and instrumental rationality, in contrast with other visions of society and the future. He gives a Habermasian twist to the recent linguistic turn in labour history, focusing on the role of competing bodies of knowledge in influencing the self-understanding and strategies of the CGT. He also goes further to situate the rise of productivism within the social and cultural context of the French Third Republic. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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