Revolutionary Unions and French Labor
The Rebels behind the Cause; Or, Why Did Revolutionary Syndicalism Fail
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940162 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald Friedman (0000-0001-7068-7889, corresponding author), Gerald C Friedman |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-155 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286887 |
| OpenAlex | W2332167648 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Since its publication in 1971, Peter Stearns's Revolutionary Syndicalism and French Labor: A Cause without Rebels has haunted French labor history.' Rejecting the popular of French workers as revolutionaries, devotees of the period's most radical union movement, Stearns argues that revolutionary syndicalist activists were out of touch with French workers. Vigorous producers of distinctive and abundant rhetoric, syndicalists not characterize French labor in their heyday and they did not set an enduring trend. Instead, their image lives in the minds of those historians who wish that workers had been what they were not.2 For Stearns, revolutionary syndicalism mattered only because it hindered unionization by inhibiting the organization of effective unions.3 Lacking support among workers, the movement collapsed in a crise syndicaliste before World War I. By 1910, Stearns argues
Economic history · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2023 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |