French revolutionary syndicalism and the public sphere
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French revolutionary syndicalism and the public sphere
（Cambridge cultural social studies）
Cambridge University Press, 2005, c1996
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Originally published 1996
Includes index
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This study explores the evolution of the Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT), and its interaction with the French public sphere, between 1900 and 1920. Kenneth Tucker examines the triumph of this productivism and instrumental rationality, in contrast with other visions of society and the future. He gives a Habermasian twist to the recent linguistic turn in labour history, focusing on the role of competing bodies of knowledge in influencing the self-understanding and strategies of the CGT. He also goes further to situate the rise of productivism within the social and cultural context of the French Third Republic.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Prologue
- 1. The Belle Epoque and revolutionary syndicalism
- Part I. Reconfiguring the Language of Labour: The Advantages and Limitations of a Habermasian Historical Sociology: 2. Syndicalism, the New Orthodoxy and the postmodern turn
- 3. Public discourse and civil society: Habermas, Bourdieu and the new social movements
- Part II. Visions of Modernity in the Liberal and Proletarian Public Spheres: Positivism, Republicanism and Social Science: 4. The liberal and proletarian public spheres in nineteenth-century France
- 5. The fin-de-siecle public sphere, the academic field and the social sciences
- Part III. Exploring Revolutionary Syndicalism: 6. Pelloutier, Sorel and revolutionary syndicalism
- 7. Reformulating revolutionary syndicalism
- 8. Toward a new public sphere: Taylorism, consumerism and the postwar CGT
- Conclusion: 9. The legacy of syndicalism
- Notes
- Index.
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