Peasants and Protest: Agricultural Workers, Politics, and Unions in the Aude, 1850-1914

by Laura L. Frader and Laura Levine Frader

In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twentieth-century France, the great vinegrowers' revolt of 1907, shook the entire south with massive demonstrations. In this study, Laura Levine Frader explains...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520068092
• ISBN13: 9780520068094
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.4"