The Shape of Strikes in France, 1830–1960

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1971, Pages 60-86

  Shorter, Edward ^a   Tilly, Charles ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0040024111     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: 14752999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417500006113     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Journal mural, mai 1968 (‘Les murs ont la parole’), Julien Besancon ed. (Paris: Tchou, 1968), p. 59.
2. Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy (New York: International Publishers, 1963), p. 173.
3. Wildcat Strike: A Study in Worker-Management Relationships (Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch Press, 1954). For a cross-section of this approach see the essays in Industrial Conflict, Arthur Kornhauser, et al., eds. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954), pp. 59–185.
4. For a critique of the human relations approach see John H. Goldthorpe, et al.,The Affluent Worker: Industrial Attitudes and Behaviour (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), pp. 177–8.
5. Ross and Hartman, pp. 115–140, 172–81. J. E. T. Eldridge has recently criticized Ross and Hartman on other points, questioning their assertion that industry-wide bargaining and labor governments reduce labor disputes. See his Industrial Disputes: Essays in the Sociology of Industrial Relations (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968), pp. 23–35.
6. ‘Incidence and Duration of Industrial Disputes’ International Labour Review, 77 (1958), 456.
7. France: Ministere du Commerce. Office du Travail, Statistique des grèves e des recours a la conciliation et l'arbitrage, 1892-1935 (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1892-1939); France: Ministere du Travail, Bulletin, 1936–8.
8. France: Ministère des Affaires sociales, Revue française du Travail (RFT). RFT data include strikes of workers in nationalized industries but not of civil servants (Fonction publique); see on this Hélène Sinay, La grève (Paris: Dalloz, 1966), p. 76.
9. Data taken from Annuaire Statistique de la France, 1966, p. 120
10. The mining labor force dropped by 27 percent from 258,000 in 1954 to 189,000 in 1965. See Annuaire statistique de la France, 1966, p. 108. Calculated on the basis of the total active population, not just the industrial labor force.
11. Ross and Hartman, pp. 89, 116.
12. Ross and Hartman, p. 203.