Schism and Solidarity in Social Movements: The Politics of Labor in the French Third Republic (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
1 The Struggle and the Conciliation......Page 17
Urban Populism and Communal Unionism......Page 18
Sectarian and Segmentary Systems......Page 23
Plan of the Book......Page 29
2 Schism and Solidarity......Page 31
The Basic Model......Page 32
Routinization versus Retraditionalization of Charisma......Page 37
Inverted Hierarchy......Page 41
Possibilities for Syncretism......Page 44
Summary of the Argument......Page 51
3 Vox Populi, Vox Dei......Page 53
The French Populist Tradition......Page 56
Religion, Revolution, and State Building......Page 58
The Populist Reformation......Page 62
The Populist Cycle......Page 69
Summary......Page 73
4 Esprit de Corps......Page 74
The Breakdown of Skill Hierarchies......Page 76
Industrial Districts and Labor Markets......Page 78
Sectoral and Solidaristic Unionism......Page 83
Workshop versus Community-based Mobilization......Page 87
Summary......Page 89
5 Organizing the Fourth Estate......Page 90
The Populist Republic Redux......Page 91
Fragmentation of the Collectivists: The Emergence of Anarchism......Page 100
Mythmaking and Role-playing: Exhuming the Commune......Page 104
Party of Labor or Labor Party?......Page 107
Summary......Page 113
6 The New Covenant......Page 115
From Boulangism to May 1st 1890......Page 116
Jacks-of-all-trades: The Bourses du travail......Page 126
The General Strike as Covenant......Page 133
Analysis of the 1894 Vote......Page 139
Summary......Page 143
7 “Above All We Are Syndicalists”......Page 145
The Bourses versus National Trade Federations......Page 146
Putting the Union House in Order......Page 151
Syndicalism as a Closed Inverted Hierarchy......Page 160
Summary......Page 166
8 From Congregation to Reformed Church......Page 168
Some Preliminaries......Page 170
Categorical Imperatives: Class or Nation?......Page 174
Bourse and Departmental Federation......Page 178
Jaurèsian Synthesis: Totemic Unity......Page 181
The Reformed Church Examined......Page 185
Summary......Page 190
9 Dealignment......Page 192
Old Fault Lines, New Pressures, 1907–1914......Page 193
The Fragile Alignment......Page 196
Revolutionary Populism Revisited......Page 201
Consolidation of War Corporatism......Page 207
A Return to Populism......Page 208
Summary......Page 212
10 The Party the Syndicalists Built......Page 214
“What Is to Be Done?”......Page 215
The Two Methods of Syndicalism......Page 217
Impacts on the SFIO......Page 221
Emerging Alignments: The 1920 Rail Strike......Page 223
Denouement: The Schisms of 1920 and 1921......Page 228
Bolshevization and the CGTSR......Page 241
Summary......Page 243
11 Conclusion......Page 244
Works Cited......Page 261
Index......Page 287