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The Local Union and the Workers: Mobilising Discontent

In: Crisis in the French Labour Movement

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  • W. Rand Smith

    (Lake Forest College)

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Working-class support is the goal of any trade-union movement, but nowhere is such support more crucial than in France. Given the relative lack of institutionalised relationships between labour and management, organised labour’s power depends to a large extent on its ability to represent and speak for the mass of workers. This ability depends, in turn, on the union’s capacity to mobilise workers. As Alfred Grosser has pointed out: ‘The power [of unions] to mobilise supporters constitutes an essential criterion of their representativeness: many strikes and demonstrations are undertaken solely to exhibit the influence and therefore the representativeness of the group that organises them.’1

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  • W. Rand Smith, 1987. "The Local Union and the Workers: Mobilising Discontent," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Crisis in the French Labour Movement, chapter 5, pages 131-155, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-08556-9_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08556-9_5
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