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French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere Kenneth H. Tucker (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)

French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere By Kenneth H. Tucker (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)

French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere by Kenneth H. Tucker (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)

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Kenneth Tucker examines the evolving productivist discourse of the Confederation Generale du Travail at the turn of the century and offers a Habermasian twist to the recent linguistic turn in labour history. His study makes an eloquent case for using history as a cultural resource in confronting our own fin de siecle.

French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere Summary

French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere by Kenneth H. Tucker (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)

This study explores the evolution of the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT), and its interaction with the French public sphere, between 1900 and 1920. Kenneth Tucker examines the triumph of this productivism and instrumental rationality, in contrast with other visions of society and the future. He gives a Habermasian twist to the recent linguistic turn in labour history, focusing on the role of competing bodies of knowledge in influencing the self-understanding and strategies of the CGT. He also goes further to situate the rise of productivism within the social and cultural context of the French Third Republic.

French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere Reviews

"...this is a dense and ambitious study of French revolutionary syndicalism during the belle epoque that should be of interest to labor historians as well as to those interested in contemporary sociological theory." Elizabeth Sage, Journal of Modern History
"Kenneth Tucker is to be congratulated for this formidable intellectual accomplishment....Scholars and students in history, sociology, and anthropology will find Tucker's work a valuable educational experience." Neil Smelser, Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
"French Revolutionary Syndication and the Public Sphere is an original and highly documented book that explores the evolution of French syndicalist organization." Alberto Spektorowski, AJS
"...a sensitive readeing of an historical case used to motivate a critical but sympathetic critique of contemporary social theory, and particularly the work of Habermas." Christopher K. Ansell, Social Forces

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: Prologue; 1. The Belle Epoque and revolutionary syndicalism; Part I. Reconfiguring the Language of Labour: The Advantages and Limitations of a Habermasian Historical Sociology: 2. Syndicalism, the New Orthodoxy and the postmodern turn; 3. Public discourse and civil society: Habermas, Bourdieu and the new social movements; Part II. Visions of Modernity in the Liberal and Proletarian Public Spheres: Positivism, Republicanism and Social Science: 4. The liberal and proletarian public spheres in nineteenth-century France; 5. The fin-de-siecle public sphere, the academic field and the social sciences; Part III. Exploring Revolutionary Syndicalism: 6. Pelloutier, Sorel and revolutionary syndicalism; 7. Reformulating revolutionary syndicalism; 8. Toward a new public sphere: Taylorism, consumerism and the postwar CGT; Conclusion: 9. The legacy of syndicalism; Notes; Index.

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NPB9780521563598
9780521563598
0521563593
French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere by Kenneth H. Tucker (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)
Kenneth H. Tucker (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1996-07-04
296
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