Fellow Travellers Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways 1914 1939 1st Edition by Thomas Beaumont ISBN 9781789624915 1789624916

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ISBN 10: 1789624916
ISBN 13: 9781789624915
Author: Thomas Beaumont

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Fellow Travellers examines the shifting practices and strategies adopted by Communist militants as they sought to build and maintain support on the railways. In a period in which the Communist party struggled to establish a foothold in many French workplaces, activists on the railways bucked the trend and set down deep and lasting roots of support. They maintained this support even through the sectarian period of the Comintern’s shift to class against class, deepening their participation within railway industrial relations and gaining the experience of engagement with managers and state officials upon which they would build during the years of the Popular Front. Here France’s railway employees joined alongside their fellow workers in shaping a new social contract for workers, extending the principle of democratic representation into the workplace. While the Popular Front experiment proved shortlived, its influence was long lasting. In the post Liberation period, the key tenets of the Popular Front experience re-emerged within the nationalised SNCF, shaping the particular character of railway industrial relations – the peculiar mix of collaboration and hostile confrontation between management and workforce that continues to make the French railways one of the most contested sectors of the modern French economy.

Fellow Travellers Communist Trade Unionism and Industrial Relations on the French Railways 1914 1939 1st Edition Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Railway Workers at War

• Mobilisation

• Class and Nation

• L’Impôt du Sang

• Working the Wartime Railways

• Contre les Compagnies, Pour la Nation: War Weariness and the Remobilisation of Opinion

• 1917: Popular Attitudes to War

• The Cost of Living Crisis

• The National Union and its Programme

• The ‘Minoritaires’: Against the Sacred Union

• Conclusion: The Armistice

Chapter 2: Railway Workers and the ‘Après Guerre’

• Railway Workers and the ‘Spirit of 1919’

• Demobilisation and the Transport Crisis

• Bidegaray and the Majority Leadership

• May Day 1919

• Reform and Revolution After 1 May

• Cheminots and the Metalworkers’ Strike, June 1919

• 1920

• Precursors to May: The Strikes of January and February 1920

• May 1920: The Great Strike

• Conclusion

Chapter 3: Railway Workers and the Communist Choice

• Railway Schism

• Bolsheviks and Syndicalists: The RILU and Divisions within the CGTU

• The Founding of the CGTU

• The Syndicalists and Moscow

• Party and Union

• Conclusion

Chapter 4: Stabilisation

• Cheminot Unionism after 1921

• Stabilising the Railway Industry

• The Amnesty Campaign

• Red for Danger: Surveillance on the Railways

• The Railway Companies and the Professional World of the Cheminots

• Contesting Managerial Authority: Cheminots Rabkory

• Conclusion

Chapter 5: International Connections

• Cheminot Internationalism

• Internationalism: The Soviet Union

• The Ruhr

• The Rif War

• Conclusion

Chapter 6: ‘Hostile Participants’: Communists and Railway Industrial Relations in the ‘Class-against-Class’ Era, 1928–1934

• Workers and the Depression

• Responding to the Crisis: The SFIO and the CGT

• Responding to the Crisis: The Communists

• ‘Class-against-Class’

• The Path to Participation

• Beginning Participation

• Rationalisation and the Railways

• The Politics of Railway Safety

• Conclusion

Chapter 7: Railway Workers and the Popular Front: From Victory to Defeat, 1934–1939

• Towards the Popular Front

• 1936

• Spain

• The Popular Front and the Railway Industry

• November 1938: Defeat of the Popular Front

• The Nazi–Soviet Pact

• Conclusion

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