French Home Front, 1914-1918

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The aim of this book is to show that most major changes already taking place in the French economy and most conflicts dividing French society continued during the war, but also that the war was the theater of deep transformations, some of them still having consequences on today's France.
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Overview

The aim of this book is to show that most major changes already taking place in the French economy and most conflicts dividing French society continued during the war, but also that the war was the theater of deep transformations, some of them still having consequences on today's France.
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"The translation of the collective work by Fridenson is, in fact, part of a new series dedicated to the 'Legacy of the Great War' published by Berg...That series has already produced translations of excellent works on the war, such as Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau's Men at War 1914-18 (1993) and Antoine Prost's In the Wake of War (1992)." --The International History Review

"Another in Berg's fine series entitled 'The Legacy of the Great War', this translation offers ten essays adeptly selected to cover the breadth of the French experience. [...] ...the essays provide an important window on a society which, more than most, was consumed by the Great War." --Canadian Military History

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780854966936
  • Publisher: Berg Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/6/1993
  • Series: Legacy of the Great War
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 326
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.50 (h) x 0.87 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: A New View of France at War 1
L'Union Sacree
1 "That's the Death Knell of Our Boys..." 17
2 The Radical Socialist Party During the First World War 37
Mobilizing the Nation
3 Industrial Mobilization in 1914-1918: Production, Planning, and Ideology 57
4 Albert Thomas and the War Industries 89
Employers at War
5 Gnome et Rhone. An Aviation Engine Firm in the First World War 135
6 The Calcium Carbide Case and the Decriminalization of Industrial Ententes in France, 1915-26 153
Gender, Class, and Nation
7 The Female Munition Workers of the Seine 183
8 Shop Stewards at Renault 219
The Politics of Daily Life
9 The Comite d'Action (CGT-Parti Socialiste) and the Origins of Wartime Labor Reformism 241
10 Cooperatives and the Labor Movement in Paris during the Great War 280
Notes on Contributors 317
Index 319
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