French Strike Development and Class Struggle

The Development of the Strike in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Toulouse

Bibliographic Data

ID11204194
AuthorsRonald Aminzade (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume4
Issue1
Pages57-79
Publication date1980-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0145553200018800
OpenAlexW2312940875
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

The strike, an organized work stoppage to compel employers to accept workers' demands, is a form of class struggle that predates the nineteenth century. During the nineteenth century, however, the strike became one of the most common forms of collective action in Western Europe and a major expression of class struggle. “No doubt concerted work stoppages date back as far as organized work itself,” write Shorter and Tilly (1974: 34), “but the form of work stoppage we call the strike became a standardized and frequent form of collective action in western countries with the industrialization of the nineteenth and twentieth century.” Sociologists and historians have generally recognized that the nineteenth century marked the emergence of the strike as an important form of working-class collective action, but they have offered diverse interpretations as to why early industrialization generated intense strike activity

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