Marxism at Work
Subtitle: Ideology, Class and French Socialism during the Third Republic
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 535
ISBN-13: 9780521893053
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; History; History - General History; Europe; USA; Europe - General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; History / Europe / General; Political Science-Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Socialism--France--History--19th century
First sentence: The historical investigation of socialist and labour ideologies - once, with the institutional history of trade unions and parties, the via regia of the 'old social history' - suffered and eclipse throughout the 1960s and 1970s as structuralist theory, quantitative methodologies, and populist politics combined to discredit ideology's supposed abstraction from 'real' history.