Revolutionary Syndicalism in France: The Direct Action of Its Time

by Frederick F. Ridley

A comprehensive study of the ideas and practice of the French Labour Movement between 1900 and 1914. Part one sets the syndicalist movement against its historical background, pointing to the forces which helped to shape the attitudes of the French worker, French political culture, economic developments, the influence of earlier socialist and anarchist thinkers and the failure of parliamentary democracy. The central section examines in detail the ideological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521089069
• ISBN13: 9780521089067
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"