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Klappentext Combines social (Habermas) and cultural theory with history of major union in early twentieth-century France. Zusammenfassung Kenneth Tucker examines the evolving productivist discourse of the Confédération Générale du Travail at the turn of the century and offers a Habermasian twist to the recent linguistic turn in labour history. His study makes an eloquent case for using history as a cultural resource in confronting our own fin de siècle. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: Prologue; 1. The Belle Epoque and revolutionary syndicalism; Part I. Reconfiguring the Language of Labour: The Advantages and Limitations of a Habermasian Historical Sociology: 2. Syndicalism, the New Orthodoxy and the postmodern turn; 3. Public discourse and civil society: Habermas, Bourdieu and the new social movements; Part II. Visions of Modernity in the Liberal and Proletarian Public Spheres: Positivism, Republicanism and Social Science: 4. The liberal and proletarian public spheres in nineteenth-century France; 5. The fin-de-siècle public sphere, the academic field and the social sciences; Part III. Exploring Revolutionary Syndicalism: 6. Pelloutier, Sorel and revolutionary syndicalism; 7. Reformulating revolutionary syndicalism; 8. Toward a new public sphere: Taylorism, consumerism and the postwar CGT; Conclusion: 9. The legacy of syndicalism; Notes; Index.
