Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921-45: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1931-45 - Rilegato

Perry, Matt

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0754656071 ISBN 13: 9780754656074

Casa editrice: Ashgate Pub Co, 2007

Riassunto

"Prisoners of Want" examines the experience of the unemployed and their protests and organisations that arose at times of mass unemployment in France in the interwar years. Little has been written on the experience of unemployment in France despite the wealth of material - social and medical investigations, government reports, novels, memoirs and newspapers - that can be used to reconstruct the representation and reality of the experience. Assessing the impact of unemployed protest upon the authorities (in terms of policy and the longer term development of the welfare state), this book places the role of the unemployed in the wider context of European social movements in the 1930s, as well as considering the significance of unemployed protests upon the French collective memory. The part played by the French Communist Party in the creation and leadership of the movements of the unemployed, and the range of activities these movements undertook, is also explored. From self-help to protests, hunger marches, demonstrations, relief work, school strikes, town hall occupations and riots, were all strategies that the unemployed utilised to draw attention to their plight. Crucial to explaining the characteristics of these movements is an understanding of the dynamics of protest and how different tactics were selected during their development, particularly the extent to which tactical shifts were related to the nature of the response of the authorities. By exploring these under-researched facets of political life, a much fuller understanding of French society during the turbulent pre-war years is offered.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ashgate Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0754656071
• ISBN 13: 9780754656074
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile