Late 19th Century England and France
February 28, 2000
I. Labor Movement History or Working-Class History?
A. Institutions
B. Identities
II. Early Trade Unions
A. English craft societies
B. French craft societies and compagnonnage
C. Resistance and strikes
III. English Labor Movement after 1850
A. Trades Union Congress 1868
B. General and New Unions
C. Taff-Vale (1901) and the Labour Party
IV. French Labor Movement after 1850
A. Socialist Party (Jules Guesde)
B. Trade Union Movement
1. Bourse de Travail (Pelloutier)
2. Confederations Generales de Travail (CGT)
3. revolutionary syndicalism