Feeley, Francis McCollum
Rebels with Causes

A Study of Revolutionary Syndicalist Culture among the French Primary School Teachers between 1880 and 1919.

This book is about French primary school teachers at the beginning of the Third Republic. It is a social history of their revolutionary culture and of the real contradictions and paradoxes that moved some three thousand of these state employees to openly embrace the revolutionary labor movement before the First World War. In 1905, their "Syndicalist Manifesto" declared: "During the day, we teach the children of the people. Isn't it natural that at night we wish to associate with the working people, themselves?" The administrators of the Third Republic did not find these desires to associate with working class culture as being 'natural', and they discouraged it in a variety of ways. XIV,368 Seiten mit 10 Textabb. und 22 Tafeln, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 54/Peter Lang Verlag 1989) Mängelexemplar/near mint