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Article: Workers' Participation in Post-Liberation France.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2004
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Workers' Participation in Post-Liberation France. By Adam Steinhouse (London: Lexington Books, 2001. xvi plus 245 pp.).
This study of attempts to transform workplace industrial relations adds usefully to the scant literature on early post-Liberation France but reveals many of the weaknesses (plus some strengths) of a political science approach to an historical subject. British lecturer in government Adam Steinhouse has drawn helpfully on archival and scholarly sources but has often allowed his theoretical ambitions to obscure the substance of the work.
The author's goal is to explain France's "failure" to expand labor participation in workplace ...