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Author Perry, Matt, 1967-

Title Prisoners of want : the experience and protest of the unemployed in France, 1921-45 / Matt Perry
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in labour history
Studies in labour history (Ashgate (Firm))
Contents The experience of unemployment in France between the wars -- Movements of the unemployed in the 1920s -- The Parisian unemployed movement, 1930-33 -- Early regional unemployed movements, 1931-33 -- The Lille to Paris hunger march -- After the hunger march : the rising militancy of the unemployed in 1934 -- The coming of the Popular Front and the unemployed movements -- The Popular Front government and the unemployed -- Unemployment and the war years, 1940-45
Summary Prisoners of Want examines the experience of the unemployed and their protests in France in the turbulent interwar years. It considers the peculiarities of the French experience of mass unemployment and explores the relationship between these movements and the authorities, both government policy-makers and those concerned with public order. The book fills a gap in our knowledge of the French Communist Party, the Resistance, and the French welfare state. As such it will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern French history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-284) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Front populaire -- History -- 20th century
Parti communiste français -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Front populaire fast
Parti communiste français fast
Parti communiste français gnd
Subject Unemployed -- France -- History -- 20th century
Manpower policy -- France -- History -- 20th century
Labor movement -- France -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Labor movement
Manpower policy
Unemployed
Arbeitsloser
Protestbewegung
Arbeiterbewegung
Arbeitslosigkeit
France
Frankreich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754686521
0754686523