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Author Mann, Keith, author.

Title Forging Political Identity : Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France 1900-1939.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages).
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Series International studies in social history ; 16
International studies in social history ; 16.
Contents Title Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Industrial Social Relations in France's Second Industrial Revolution; Chapter 2 -- The French Labor Movements and Worker Political Identity; Chapter 3 -- Political Opportunity Structure from 1875 to 1921; Chapter 4 -- Silk Workers in Lyon, 1900-1921; Chapter 5 -- Metal Workers in Lyon, 1900-1921; Chapter 6 -- Political Opportunity Structure 1921-1935; Chapter 7 -- Silk Workers in Lyon, 1921-1935; Chapter 8 -- Metal Workers in Lyon, 1921-1935.
Chapter 9 -- The French Popular Front and Political IdentityConclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Escaping the traditional focus on Paris, the author examines the divergent political identities of two occupational groups in Lyon, metal and silk workers, who, despite having lived and worked in the same city, developed different patterns of political practices and bore distinct political identities. This book also examines in detail the way that gender relations influenced industrial change, skill, and political identity. Combining empirical data collected in French archives with social science theory and methods, this study argues that political identities were shaped by the intersection of.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Silk industry -- France -- Lyon -- Employees -- History -- 20th century.
Silk industry.
France -- Lyon.
Employees.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Metal-workers -- France -- Lyon -- History -- 20th century.
Labor movement -- France -- Lyon -- History -- 20th century.
Labor movement.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital.
Metal-workers.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Silk industry -- Employees.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mann, Keith. Forging Political Identity : Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France 1900-1939. New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., ©2010 9781845456450
ISBN 9781845458256
1845458257
9781845456450 (alkaline paper)
1845456459 (alkaline paper)