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Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921-45 (Hardcover)
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Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921-45 (Hardcover)
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Prisoners of Want examines the experience of the unemployed and
their protests in France in the interwar years. Little has been
written on the experience of unemployment in France despite the
wealth of material - social and medical investigations, government
reports, novels, memoirs and newspapers - that can be used to
reconstruct the representation and reality of the experience.
Assessing the impact of unemployed protest upon the authorities (in
terms of policy and the longer term development of the welfare
state) this book places the role of the unemployed in the wider
context of European social movements in the 1930s, as well as
considering the significance of unemployed protests upon the French
collective memory. The part played by the French Communist Party in
the creation and leadership of the movements of the unemployed, and
the range of activities these movements undertook, is also
explored. From self-help to protests, hunger marches,
demonstrations, relief work, school strikes, town hall occupations
and riots; all were strategies that the unemployed utilised to draw
attention to their plight. Crucial to explaining the
characteristics of these movements is an understanding of the
dynamics of protest and how different tactics were selected during
their development, particularly the extent to which tactical shifts
were related to the nature of the response of the authorities. By
exploring these under-researched facets of political life, a much
fuller understanding of French society during the turbulent
interwar years is offered.
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