Robert Stuart. Marxism at Work. Ideology, Class and French Socialism during the Third Republic.

Contents

Preface

Part I

In search of French Marxism

1 – Ideology, history, and the study of Marxism

2 – The Parti Ouvrier Français: its history and historiography

3 – The axioms of class war: class, class consciousness, and class conflict

Part II

The making of the French working class

4 – The capitalist mode of production and proletarianisation

5 – Unmaking the working class: lumpenproletarians and labour aristocrats

6 – A ‘class for itself’; trade unions, cooperatives, and the ‘labour movement’

7 – The bourgeois state versus the proletarian party

8 – Reform and revolution

Part III

History and class conflict

9 – Vampire-Capital: Marxists indict the bourgeoisie

10 – Shopkeepers and artisans: the Guesdists and the petite bourgeoisie

11 – Aristocrats, peasants and labourers: Marxism and rural society

12 – Sales clerks and savants: Marxists encounter the ‘new middle class’

13 – The proletarian revolution: from pauperisation to Utopia

Conclusion

Bibliographical note