December 1995
The First Revolt Against Globalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9202736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raghu Krishnan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1996-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-048-01-1996-05_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2133665551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
France has just gone through its deepest social crisis in almost thirty years. A three-week strike of workers in the country's rail and public transport networks was the driving force behind a much broader strike and social movement against the right-wing government's economic and social plans. For the railworkers, the immediate cause of the strike was the release of a government plan to cut their pensions and implement a "restructuring" program that threatened the shutdown of six thousand kilometers of railway lines and a corresponding loss in jobs. Seventy-three thousand jobs have already been lost since the mid-1980s, while one hundred eighty-five thousand workers remain.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Archaeology · Economic growth · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Government (linguistics) · Job loss · Plan (archaeology) · Political economy · Political science · Restructuring · Sociology · Threatened species · Unemployment · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Social Sciences and Governance
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2004 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |