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Fellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the tre...

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Έκδοση: Liverpool University Press 2020
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/52847/
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-401562020-08-03T08:33:07Z Fellow Travellers Beaumont, Thomas communism industrial relations relations railway workers trade unionism popular front bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTK Industrialisation & industrial history Fellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the trend and set down deep and lasting roots of support. They maintained this support even through the sectarian period of the Comintern’s shift to class against class, deepening their participation within railway industrial relations and gaining the experience of engagement with managers and state officials upon which they would build during the years of the Popular Front. Here France’s railway employees joined alongside their fellow workers in shaping a new social contract for workers, extending the principle of democratic representation into the workplace. While the Popular Front experiment proved shortlived, its influence was long lasting. In the post Liberation period, the key tenets of the Popular Front experience re-emerged within the nationalised SNCF, shaping the particular character of railway industrial relations – the peculiar mix of collaboration and hostile confrontation between management and workforce that continues to make the French railways one of the most contested sectors of the modern French economy. 2020-07-29T12:20:35Z 2020-07-29T12:20:35Z 2019 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/40156 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Beaumont_9781789624915_web.pdf https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/id/52847/ Liverpool University Press 10.2307/j.ctvt6rjs5 10.2307/j.ctvt6rjs5 4dc2afaf-832c-43bc-9ac6-8ae6b31a53dc 346483d4-50d7-4654-937f-22227ddf82cd 282 Liverpool John Moores University LJMU open access
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description Fellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the trend and set down deep and lasting roots of support. They maintained this support even through the sectarian period of the Comintern’s shift to class against class, deepening their participation within railway industrial relations and gaining the experience of engagement with managers and state officials upon which they would build during the years of the Popular Front. Here France’s railway employees joined alongside their fellow workers in shaping a new social contract for workers, extending the principle of democratic representation into the workplace. While the Popular Front experiment proved shortlived, its influence was long lasting. In the post Liberation period, the key tenets of the Popular Front experience re-emerged within the nationalised SNCF, shaping the particular character of railway industrial relations – the peculiar mix of collaboration and hostile confrontation between management and workforce that continues to make the French railways one of the most contested sectors of the modern French economy.
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