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Subject(s)

• Fédération SUD-PTT [Browse]
• Labor unions—France [Browse]

Series

• Trade unions past, present and future ; v. 4. [More in this series]
• Trade unions past, present and future ; v. 4 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Drawing on ethnographic research in the breakaway trade union movement Fédération des Syndicats Solidaires, Unitaires et Démocratiques (SUD), this book explores broad questions of trade union renewal in France. The SUD movement emerged in 1988 with the avowed intention to revitalise French trade unionism. Since its emergence the movement has increasingly been cited as a prime instigator of social unrest in France. In a wider context of union decline in Europe, this research considers to what extent and in what ways SUD has been able to develop and sustain collective organisation, identity and mobilisation. Research was conducted in a local-level union of SUD-Rail, a union which emerged in the French public railway sector in 1996 from an ideological split within one of France?s largest trade union confederations, the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT). From an ethnographic perspective, the book contributes a thick description of trade unionism at the local level and, drawing on social movement theory, analyses activists? attempts to confront and renew practices and structures in trade unionism. The book evaluates the success of the SUD movement and the prospects for a more sustained renewal of French trade unionism." -- publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Introduction
• Patterns in French trade union ideology
• The SUD response to trade unions in "crisis"
• Researching French trade unions
• Trade unionism in the French railways
• Leadership and participative democracy
• Membership and member activism
• Representative roles
• Militant identity
• Trade union renewal in France.

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ISBN

• 9783034301015 (alk. paper)
• 3034301014 (alk. paper)

OCLC

651487445

RCP

H - S

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