Opening the Gates
The Lip Affair, 1968-1981
Published on 12. June 2018
512 pages
978-1-78663-543-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
8pp b&w plate section
ISBN-13
978-1-78663-543-3 (9781786635433)
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06/2018
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Person
Donald Reid is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on French labour history and the history of collective memory in modern France.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Acronyms
- List of Illustrations
- Timeline
- Introduction
- 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 Besançon 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 Grève
- 11. Reentering the Atmosphere
- 12. The Onions of Egypt
- 13. From Besançon to Gdansk
- 14. In the Musée Grévin
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
