Affluence and the French Worker in the Fourth Republic / / Richard F. Hamilton.

The basic concern of the author is to find the reason for the persistent leftist character of French working-class politics in a period of rapid industrialization and improving living standards. Reanalyzing material from surveys made by two French organizations, he finds that increased affluence is...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]
©1967
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Center for International Studies, Princeton University ; 5079
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS USED IN TEXT
  • I. Introduction
  • PART ONE: The Workers in French Society
  • II. The Fourth Republic Background—The Parties and the Unions
  • III. The Position of the Workers: Politics and Issues
  • IV. The Position of the Workers: The Economic and Social Condition
  • V. Pro-Soviet and Revolutionary Workers
  • PART TWO: The Role of Deprivations
  • VI. Skill and Politics
  • VII. Income and Politics
  • VIII. Standard of Living and Politics: Automobiles, Homes, and Luxuries
  • I. Unemployment and Job Insecurity
  • PART THREE: The Channels of Influence
  • X. Factory Life and the Unions
  • XI. Size of City, Region, and Religion
  • XII. Affluence and the French Workers
  • APPENDIX A: THE SURVEYS
  • APPENDIX B: A NOTE ON SEX AND POLITICS
  • APPENDIX C: REGIONS
  • NAME INDEX
  • SUBJECT INDEX