This Columbia University study traces French labour from the Revolution of 1789 through the Commune to the rise of revolutionary syndicalism around the Confédération Générale du Travail. It explains the syndicats, the general strike, sabotage and direct action, and the doctrine that workers organised by trade, not parties, would remake society.
A clear early history of a movement that shaped European labour politics before the First World War. Download the free EPUB.