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Opening the gates : the Lip affair, 1968-1981

Title: Opening the gates : the Lip affair, 1968-1981 / Donald Reid.
Author: Reid, Donald, 1952-
Publication: London ; New York : Verso, 2018.

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Description

xvi, 492 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labour struggles after May 1968 In the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national affair. The Lip occupation and self-management experience captured the imagination of the Left in France and internationally, as a living example of the spirit of May '68. In Opening the Gates, Donald Reid chronicles the history of this struggle. Beginning with the early stirrings of worker radicalism in 1968, Reid's meticulously researched narrative details the nationally publicised conflict of 1973, the second bankruptcy and occupation of 1976 and the conversion of Lip into a group of cooperatives operating into the 1980s. Reid explores the arguments that that animated Lip: between the labour bureaucracy and the rank-and-file; between the two main progressive trade unions, the CGT and the CFDT; between the established worker institions at Lip (CGT, CFDT, and the CE/works council) and the more militant, less structured organizations like the Action Committee; and lastly, between male workers and an increasingly-politicized female workforce at Lip, who gradually developed a parallel feminist struggle both inside and outside the factory"--
"In the Summer of 1973, workers occupied the Lip watch and clock factory, sparking a national cause and controversy. The Lip occupation and self-management experience captured the imagination of the Left in France and internationally, as a living example of the spirit of May '68. In Opening the Gates, Donald Reid chronicles the history of this struggle. Beginning with the early stirrings of worker radicalism in 1968, Reid's meticulously researched narrative details the nationally publicised conflict of 1973, the second bankruptcy and occupation of 1976 and the conversion of Lip into a group of cooperatives operating into the 1980s"--

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-478) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Lip, Lip, Lip, Hurray! -- 2.The Serpent -- 3.We Produce, We Sell, We Pay Ourselves -- 4.The Factory Is Where the Workers Are -- 5.Because We Tell You It Is Possible -- 6.From Besancon to the Chingkang Mountains -- 7.Sometimes a Great Notion -- 8.Take the Money and Run -- 9.Women's Lip -- 10.Like the Bodies of the Hanged at the Place de Greve -- 11.Reentering the Atmosphere -- 12.The Onions of Egypt -- 13.From Besancon to Gdansk -- 14.In the Musee Grevin.

Call Number

JFE 19-7020

ISBN

9781786635402
1786635402

LCCN

2017058612
40028301921

OCLC

1001307631

Author

Reid, Donald, 1952- author.

Title

Opening the gates : the Lip affair, 1968-1981 / Donald Reid.

Publisher

London ; New York : Verso, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-478) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Other Standard Identifier

40028301921

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7020

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