State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry (repost)
State Capitalism and Working-Class Radicalism in the French Aircraft Industry
English | December 13, 1990 | ISBN-10: 0520059530 | 480 pages | PDF | 29.50 MB
English | December 13, 1990 | ISBN-10: 0520059530 | 480 pages | PDF | 29.50 MB
In the 1950s and 1960s France experienced an economic miracle. As the state's role expanded with efforts to create a more modern economy, however, labor relations remained more volatile and workers more radical than elsewhere in western Europe. Herrick Chapman argues in this important new book that state capitalism and working-class radicalism went hand-in-hand and that both have antecedents in the tumultuous events of the 1930s and 1940s.
The author focuses on a key industry–aviation–which held center stage in France from the Great Depression to the Cold War. While manufacturers and state officials struggled to modernize, the aviation industry became a bastion of the Communist Party and an arena of combat where workers, employers, and officials promoted competing visions of industrial reform. This gave rise to a new environment where state intervention and working-class radicalism became mutually reinforcing, and by the postwar era a peculiarly contentious form of industrial politics had become firmly entrenched.