"With this book Keith Mann carries forward a vital tradition of
North American labor history inspired by the work of Charles and
Louise Tilly. Constructed around the dialectics of skill,
technological change, and the organization of the labor process in
Lyon's two key industries, while grounded in the distinctiveness of
a particular spatial community shaped dynamically through time, it
casts the politics of the Popular Front era in a strikingly
original light." . Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
"This is an important book of exceptionally-high academic
quality. With great skill, Mann documents and analyzes the
influence of technology and work organization on the character of
labor militancy. This book notably advances our understanding of
these issues." . Michael Hanagan, Vassar College
"Keith Mann has written an important book that should be read
not only by historians and social scientists but by all interested
in movements for social change." . Gerald Friedman, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
Escaping the traditional focus on Paris, the author examines the
divergent political identities of two occupational groups in Lyon,
metal and silk workers, who, despite having lived and worked in the
same city, developed different patterns of political practices and
bore distinct political identities. This book also examines in
detail the way that gender relations influenced industrial change,
skill, and political identity. Combining empirical data collected
in French archives with social science theory and methods, this
study argues that political identities were shaped by the
intersection of the prevailing political climate with the social
relations surrounding work in specific industrial settings.
Keith Mann is Associate Professor of Sociology at Cardinal
Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He specializes in 19th-
and 20th-century French social and labor history. His work has
appeared in the International Review of Social History,
International Labor and Working Class History, Labor History, and
Le mouvement social."
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