1st Edition
Prisoners of Want: The Experience and Protest of the Unemployed in France, 1921-45
By Matt Perry
Copyright 2007
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; The experience of unemployment 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; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Matt Perry
