The Union Militant: Roots of Union Activism

W. Rand Smith
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Chapter 3 in Crisis in the French Labour Movement, 1987, pp 59-82 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In beginning this analysis of CGT and CFDT militants I make an explicit assumption: to paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous saying about the rich, French union militants are different from the mass of workers and union rank-and-file members. They are different primarily in that they spend many hours in organisational activities that often will block, if not harm, their advancement as workers. Militants pass much of that time confronting management with workers’ problems and complaints. They do so reimbursed only for a specified number of work hours lost, and in many instances work beyond their ‘delegated’ hours, receiving no compensation at all. Theirs is not a life of glory, praise and comfort. What motivates them?

Keywords: Communist Party; Union Membership; Union Activity; Organisational Life; Union Movement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08556-9_3

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