Kenneth Tucker. French revolutionary syndicalism and the public sphere.

Contents

Introduction

Prologue

1 – The Belle Epoque and revolutionary syndicalism

Part I

Reconfiguring the language of labor: the advantages and limitations of a Habermasian historical sociology

2 – Syndicalism, the New Orthodoxy, and the postmodern turn

3 – Public discourse and civil society: Habermas, Bourdieu, and the new social movements

Part II

Visions of modernity in the liberal and proletarian public spheres: positivism, republicanism, and social science

4 – The liberal and proletarian public spheres in nineteenth-century France

5 – The fin-de-siécle public sphere, the academic field, and the social sciences

Part III

Exploring revolutionary syndicalism

6 – Pelloutier, Sorel, and revolutionary syndicalism

7 – Reformulating revolutionary syndicalism

8 – Toward a new public sphere: Taylorism, consumerism, and the postwar CGT

Conclusion

9 – The legacy of syndicalism