| Working Women and Socialist Politics in France, 1880-1914: A Regional Study Contributor(s): Hilden, Patricia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198219350 ISBN-13: 9780198219354 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $156.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1986 Annotation: This enlightening study of the relations between the Marxist wing of the French socialist movement and a substantial female industrial proletariat reveals the failure of the Socialists to assimilate an important potential constituency. Hilden examines the early development of French socialism and recreates the atmosphere of everyday life for textile workers in Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing around the turn of the century. She shows that these women demonstrated more political militance in the face of their worsening industrial situation and their exclusion from organized labor resistance than has previously been suggested. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - France - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 331.487 |
| LCCN: 85015487 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.22 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This enlightening study of the relations between the Marxist wing of the French socialist movement and a substantial female industrial proletariat reveals the failure of the Socialists to assimilate an important potential constituency. Hilden examines the early development of French socialism and recreates the atmosphere of everyday life for textile workers in Lille, Roubaix, and Tourcoing around the turn of the century. She shows that these women demonstrated more political militance in the face of their worsening industrial situation and their exclusion from organized labor resistance than has previously been suggested. |