Indicative Reading and Resource List:
Please provide an indicative reading list for the module. Where possible, highlight the core resources for the module in bold and list in priority order. It is useful to indicate whether the module uses a textbook heavily or relies mainly on journal articles, for instance. Web resources and sources such as films or musical recordings should also be listed here. If the topic is one where the readings will usually change or be updated regularly from year to year, please indicate that. You may wish to link to module resources in Learning Central here.
There is no main text book for this course and the following list is extensive but not exhaustive. Detailed guidance on recommended and secondary reading will be given week by week in the module kit.
General and introductory works on French labour and unions
Capdevielle, J. and Mouriaux, R. (1973) Les syndicats ouvriers en France, Armand Collin, Paris.
Goetschy, J. and Jobert, A. (1993) "Industrial relations in France", in G. Bamber and R. Lansbury (eds.), International and Comparative Industrial Relations, 2nd Ed., Routledge, London.
Goetschy, J. and Rozenblatt, P. (1993) "France: the industrial relations system at a turning point?", in A. Ferner and R. Hyman (eds.), Industrial Relations in the NewEurope, Blackwell, Oxford.
Goetschy, J. (1998) ‘France: The Limits of Reform’ in A. Ferner and R. Hyman (eds) Changing Industrial Relations, Blackwell, Oxford.
Jacquier, J-P. (1998)Les clés du socialen France: manuel d’initiationsociale, Editions Liaisons, Paris.
Jeffreys, S. (2003) Liberté Egalité and Franternité at Work: Changing French Employment Relations and Management, Palgrave, Basingstoke.
Karila-Cohen, P.and Wilfert, B. (1998) Leçon d'histoire sur le syndicalisme en France. Paris: Presses universitaires de France.
Landier, H. and Labbé, D. (1998) Les organisations syndicales en France: des origines aux difficultés actuelles, Editions Liaisons, Paris.
Lane, C. (1989)Management and Labour in Europe, Edward Elgar, Aldershot.
Milner,S. (1995) "France" in S. Berger and D. Broughton (eds), The Force of Labour: The Western European Labour Movement and the Working Class in the Twentieth Century, Oxford, Berg, pp. 211-244.
Mouriaux, R. (1983) Les syndicats dans la société francaise, PFNSP, Paris.
Noblecourt, M. (1990)Les syndicats en questions, Editions Ouvrières, Paris.
Pruvost, G. and Roger, P. (1995) L’histoire inachevée de l'unité syndicale, Editions de l'Atelier, Paris.
Reynaud, J-D. (1975)Les syndicats en France, Tome 1, Editions du Seuil, Paris.
van Ruysseveldt, J. and Visser, J. (1996) ‘Contestation and State Intervention Forever? Industrial Relataions in France’ in J. van Ruysseveldt and J. Visser (eds) Industrial Relations in Europe: Traditions and Transitions, London, Sage.
Verret, M. (1995)Chevilles ouvrières, Editions de l’Atelier/Editions ouvrières, Paris.
Willard, C. (1995) La France ouvrière (3 vols.), Editions de l’Atelier, Paris.
The French working class and protest in the nineteenth century
Charle, C.(1994) Social history of France in the nineteenth century, Oxford: Berg.
Magraw, R. (1987) France 1815-1914: the bourgeois century, London, Fontana.
Magraw, R.(1992)A history of the French working classvol. 1: The age of artisan revolution, 1815-1871,Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell.
Magraw, R.(1992)A history of the French working classvol. 2: Workers and the bourgeois republic ,Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell.
Magraw, R. (2002) France, 1800-1914: a social history, London, Longman.
Willard, C. (ed.) (1995) La France ouvrière Tome 1 : des origines à 1920, Editions de l’Atelier, Paris.
Anarcho-syndicalism, trade unions and labour politics pre-World War Two
Bodin, L.and Touchard, J. (1985) Front populaire, 1936, Paris: A. Colin
Jackson, J.(1988) The Popular Front in France: defending democracy, 1934-1938: Cambridge University Press, 1988
Jennings, J. (1990)Syndicalism in France: a study of ideas, Macmillan, London.
Julliard, J. (1988) Autonomie ouvrière, Gallimard-Le Seuil, Paris.
Kergoat, J. (1990) "France", in M. Van der Linden and J. Rojahn (eds), The Formation of Labour Movements, 1870-1914: an International Perspective, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 163-90.
Lefranc, G. (1965)Histoire du Front populaire, Payot, Paris.
Magraw, R. (1989) "Socialism, Syndicalism and French Labour", in D. Geary (ed.), Labour and Socialist Movements in Europe Before 1914, Oxford, Berg, pp. 48-100.
Magraw, R, (1990) "France", in S. Salter and J.Stevenson (eds), The Working Class and Politics in Europe and America, 1929-1945, London, Longman, pp. 62-98.
Magraw, R. (1992) A History of the French Working Class, Vol. 2: Workers and the Bourgeois Republic, Blackwell, Oxford.
Milner, S. (2002), ‘France in Historical Perspective: The Impossibility of Partnership’, in S. Berger and H. Compston (eds), Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe: Lessons for the 21st Century. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 97-110.
Moss, B. (1976) The Origins of the French Labour Movement: the socialism of skilled workers, 1830-1914, Berkeley.
Rocker, R. (1989) Anarcho-syndicalism, Pluto Press, London.
Ridley, F. (1970)Revolutionary Syndicalism in France, Cambridge University Press.
Stearns, P.(1971) Revolutionarysyndicalismand French labor : a cause without rebels. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
Tartakowsky, D. (1996) Le Front populaire: la vie est a nous! Gallimard, Paris.
Torigian, M. (1999) Every factory a fortress: the French labor movement in the age of Ford and Hitler, Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press.
Vandervort, B. (1996) Victor Griffuelhes and French Syndicalism, 1855-1922, Louisiana State University Press.
Willard, C. (ed.) (1995) La France ouvrière Tome 2 : 1920-1968, Editions de l’Atelier, Paris.
Wolikow, S, (1996) Le Front populaire en France, Editions complexes, Paris.
Trade unions and labour in the trente glorieuses
Barjonet, A. (1970) ‘CGT 1968: subjectivism to the rescue of the Status quo’, in C.
Posner (ed.) Reflections on the Revolution in France, Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Boual, J.-L. (ed.) (1995)Syndicalisme, quel second siècle?Paris : Editions de l'Atelier/Editions ouvrières.
Boyer, R. (ed.) (1988) The Search for labour Market Flexibility. The European Economies in Transition, Oxford, Clarendon.
Bridgford, J. (1982) "The Integration of Trade Union Confederations into the Social and Political System", in P. Cerny (ed.) Social Movement and Protest in France, London, Pinter.
Bridgford, J. (1989) ‘The events of May: consequences for industrial relations in France’, in D. L. Hanley and A. P. Kerr (eds), May ’68: coming of age, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 100-16.
Capdevielle, J. and Mouriaux, R. (1988), ‘Mai 1968: La dernière des grèves générales’, Politis, 5 May, reproduced in J. Forbes, and N. Hewlett, (1994), Contemporary France: Essays and texts on politics, economics and society. Harlow: Longman, pp. 71-76.
Hewlett, N. (1998) Modern French Politics: Analysing conflict and Consensus since 1945, Cambridge: Polity Press, Ch. 7.
Howell, C. (1992) Regulating Labor: the State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France, Princeton: Princeton University Press, Ch. 3.
Howell, C. (1992) Regulating Labor: The State and Industrial Relations Reform in Postwar France, Princeton University Press.
Gobille, B. (2011) ‘Exploitation, Alienation and the Social Division of Labour in the May-
June Movement in France’,in J. Jackson, A.-L. Milne and J. S. Williams (eds), May 68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 34-46.
Gorz, A. (1970) ‘What are the Lessons of the May Events?, in C. Posner (ed.) Reflections on the Revolution in France, Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp. 251-65.
Jeanson, A. (1970) ‘The CFDT and the May/June crisis’, in C. Posner (ed.) Reflections on the Revolution in France, Harmondsworth: Penguin, pp.154-53.
Labbé, D. (1994) "Trade Unionism in France since the Second World War", West European Politics, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 146-68.
Lange, P., Ross, G. and Vannicelli (1982) Unions, Change and Crisis: French and Italian Union Strategy and the Political Economy, 1945-1980, Allen and Unwin, London.
Milner, S. (2002), ‘France in Historical Perspective: The Impossibility of Partnership’, in S.
Berger and H. Compston (eds), Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe: Lessons for the 21st Century. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, pp. 97-110.
Mouriaux, R. (1989) ‘Trade union strategies after May 68’, in D. L. Hanley and A. P. Kerr (eds), May ’68: coming of age, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp.117-38.
Mouriaux, R. (1994) Le syndicalisme en France depuis 1945, La Decouverte, Paris.
Parodi, M., Langevin, P. Oppenheim, J-P. and Richez-Battesti, N. (2000) La question sociale en France depuis 1945, Paris, Armand Colin.
Mouriaux, R. (1991) 'Trade Unions, Unemployment and Regulation, 1962-1989', in J.
Hollifield and G. Ross (eds), Searching for the New France, Routledge, New York and London, pp. 173-192.
Oppenheim, J.-P. (2000), ‘Après Mai 68: la quête d’un nouveau modèle de relations sociales adapté à une économie ouverte’, in M. Parodi, P. Langevin, J.-P. Oppenheim and N. Richez-Battesti, La question sociale en France depuis 1945. Paris: Armand Colin, pp. 40-81.
Parsons, N. (2003) ‘May 1968: workers against the Republic?’ in C. Gorrara and R. Langford (eds.), France since the Revolution: texts and contexts, Arnold, London, pp. 108-120.
Parsons, N. (2005) French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy, London Routledge.
Reader, K. (1993) The May 1968 events in France: reproductions and interpretations, Basingstoke: Macmillan, Chs. 1-3.
Rohan, M. (1988) Paris ’68: graffiti, poems, newspapers and posters of the events of May 1968, London: Impact.
Schain, M. A. (1980) 'Corporatism and Industrial Relations in France' in P. G. Cerny and
M.A. Schain (eds) French Politics and Public Policy, Frances Pinter, London, pp.191-217.
Seale, P. and McConville, M. (1968) French Revolution 1968, Penguin: Harmondsworth.
Seidman, M. (2004) The Imaginary Revolution, New York: Berghahn Books.
Tchobanian, R. (1995) ‘France: From Conflict to Social Dialogue’ in J. Rogers and W. Streek (eds), Works Councils: Consultation, Representation and Cooperation in Industrial Relations, Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, pp. 115-152.
Vigna, X. (2007) L'insubordination ouvrière dans les années 68 : essai d'histoire politique des usines, Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes.
Vigna, X. (2011) ‘Beyond Tradition: The strikes of May-June 1968’, in J. Jackson, A.-L.
Milne and J. S. Williams (eds), May 68: Rethinking France’s Last Revolution, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 47-57.
Visser, J. (2000) ‘France’, in B. Ebbinghaus ans J. Visser (eds) Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945, London, Macmillan Reference.
Trade unions and labour since the 1970s
Andolfatto D. and Labbé, D. (2006) ‘La transformation des syndicats français: vers un nouveau “modéle social”?, Revue française de science politique, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 281 -297.
Bridgford, J and Morris, P. (1987) 'Labour confederations and Socialist govemment in France, 1981-1986' in W. Brierley (ed.) Trade Unions and the Economic Crisis of the 1990s, Gower, Aldershot, pp.46-63.
Daley, A. ‘The Hollowing Out of French Unions: Politics and Industrial Relations after 1981 in France’, in A. Martin and G. Ross (eds) The Brave New World of European Labour: European Trade Unionism at eh Millennium, Berghahn, New York and Oxford.
Eyraud, F. and Tchobanian, R. (1985) "The Auroux Reforms and Company Level Industrial Relations in France", British Journal of lndustrial Relations, 23, pp.241-258.
Gallie, D. (1985) 'Les lois Auroux: the reform of French industrial relations?' in H. Machin and V. Wright (eds) Economic Policy and Policy-making under the Mitterrand Presidency, 1981-1984, pp.205-24.
Goetschy, J. and Linhart, D. (1990) La crise des syndicats en Europe occidentale, La Documentation francaise, Paris.
Groux, G. (1989) "French Industrial relations", in J. Howorth and G. Ross (eds) Contemporary France, Vol 3, Pinter, London, pp.52-70.
Groux, G. and Mouriaux, M. (1990) "Le cas francais", in G. Bibes and R. Mouriaux (eds) Les syndicats européens à l'épreuve, PFNSP, Paris.
Groux, G. (1994) "Industrial Relations in France: Union Crisis and the 'French Exception", Journal of Area Studies, 5, pp.80-90. Photocopy collection.
Groux, G. and Mouriaux, R. (1996) "The Dilemma of Unions without Members", in A. Daley (ed),The Mitterrand Era, London, Macmillan.
Groux, G. (1996) "From the Cold War to the Present Day; Labour Unions and the Crisis of 'Models"', in T. Chafer & B. Jenkins (eds) France: From the Cold War to the New World Order, London, Macmillan.
Howell C. (1996) "French Socialism and the Transformation of Industrial Relations", in A. Daley (ed) The Mitterrand Era, London, Macmillan.
Howell, C. (2009) ‘The Transformation of French Industrial relations: Labor representation and the State in a Post-Dirigiste Era’, Politics and Society, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 229-56.
Jeffreys, S (1996) "Down But Not Out, French Unions after Chirac" Work, Employment and Society, Vol10, No. 3, pp.509-527.
Kesselman, M. (1989) "The New Shape of Labour and Industrial Relations", in P. Godt (ed.), Policymakng in France from de Gaulle to Mitterrand, Pinter, London, pp. 165-175.
Milner, S. (1998) 'Industrial Relations in France: Towards a New Social Pact? in M. Maclean(ed.) The Mitterrand Years: Legacy and Evaluation, Macmillan London, pp. 169-184.
Milner, S. (2001), ‘Globalisation and employment in France: between flexibility and protection?’, Modern and Contemporary France, Vol. 9, No. 3 (special issue on ‘France and Globalisation’), 327-337.
Moss, B. (1988) "Industrial Law Reform in an Era of Retreat: The Auroux Laws in France", Work, Employment and Society, 2, 3, pp.317-334.
Parsons, N. (2005) French Industrial Relations in the New World Economy, London Routledge.
Potel, J-Y. (1990) "France: la lutte fractricide", in G. Bibes and R. Mouriaux (eds) Les syndicats européens à l'épreuve, PFNSP, Paris.
Rhodes. M. (1987) "Labour and industry", in S. Mazey and M. Newman (eds.), Mitterrand's France, Croom Helm, London, pp.56-80.
Ross, G. (1987) 'Labour and the Left in Power: Commissions, Omissions and Unintended
Consequences', in P. McCarthy (ed.) The French Socialists in Power 19811986, Greenwood Press, NY, Westport, Conneticut and London, pp. 107-28.
Segrestin, D. (1990) "Recent Changes in France", in G. Baglioni and C. Couch (eds.),
European Industrial Relations: The Challenge of Flexibility, Sage, London.
Smith, W. R. (1987)Crisis in the French Labour Movement, Macmillan London.
Wilson, F. (1985) 'Trade Unions and Economic Policy' in H. Machin and V. Wright (eds)
Economic Policy and Policy-making under the Mitterrand Presidency, 1981-1984, pp.205-24.
Works on individual trade unions
Dreyfus, M. (1995)Histoire de la CGT, Questions au XXe Siècle, Paris
Groux, G. and Mouriaux, R. (1989) La CFDT, Economica, Paris.
Groux, G. and Mouriaux, R. (1992) La CGT: crises et alternatives, Economica, Paris.
Linet, R. (1995)CGT: lendemains de guerre, 1944-4 7, Hachette, Paris.
Maire, E. (1 975) La CFDT aujourdhui, Seul, Paris.
Mouriaux, R. (1982) La CGT, Economica, Paris.
Pasteur, P. (1994)Christian trade unionism in Europe since 1968, Avebury, Aldershot.
Pigenet, M. (2006) ‘Force ouvrière: une forteresse incontournable’, Mouvements, 2006/1, No. 43, pp. 47 -52.
Ross, G. (1982) Workers and Communists in France: from Popular Front to Eurocommunism, UCP, Berkeley