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Prisoners of want : the experience and protest of the unemployed in France, 1921-45 / Matt Perry.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, (c)2007.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 296 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780754686521
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD5775 .P757 2007
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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