A Workforce Divided
Subtitle: Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: May 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780313317750
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; European history: from c 1900 -; Shipbuilding industry; Shipbuilding technology & engineering; Work & labour; c 1800 to c 1900; c 1900 - c 1914; Careers / Job Opportunities; History: World; Europe; Careers - Job Almanacs; Ethnic Studies - General; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Employees; France; History; Saint-Nazaire
First sentence: Shipbuilding workers in the port town of Saint-Nazaire in the thirty years before WWI hardly conformed to the stereotypical notion of workers as a homogenous class with common patterns of life and work and a willingness to battle with employers and state in the interests of a shared, radical political agenda.