Forging Political Identity : : Silk and Metal Workers in Lyon, France 1900-1939 / / Keith Mann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Mann, Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in Social History ; 16
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Tables and Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; Abbreviations --; Introduction: French Labor History and Political Identity --; 1. Industrial Social Relations in France’s Second Industrial Revolution --; 2. The French Labor Movement and Worker Political Identity --; 3 Political Opportunity Structure from 1875 to 1921 --; 4. Silk Workers in Lyon, 1900–1921 --; 5. Metal Workers in Lyon, 1900–1921 --; 6. Political Opportunity Structure 1921–1935 --; 7. Silk Workers in Lyon, 1921–1935 --; 8. Metal Workers in Lyon, 1921–1935 --; 9. The French Popular Front and Political Identity --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845458256; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781845458256
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Keith Mann.

Escaping the traditional focus on Paris, the author examines the divergent political identities of two occupational groups in Lyon, metal and silk workers, who, despite having lived and worked in the same city, developed different patterns of political practices and bore distinct political identities. This book also examines in detail the way that gender relations influenced industrial change, skill, and political identity. Combining empirical data collected in French archives with social science theory and methods, this study argues that political identities were shaped by the intersection of the prevailing political climate with the social relations surrounding work in specific industrial settings.