Michael Seidman
1936-1938: The Workers of the Paris Region During the Popular Front - Michael Seidman
The Birth of the Weekend and the Revolts Against Work: Workers of the Paris Region During the Popular Front (1936-38)
Michael Seidman
The Birth of the Weekend and the Revolts Against Work: Workers of the Paris Region During the Popular Front (1936-38) in PDF Format (4.2MB)
Women's Subversive Individualism in Barcelona during the 1930s
WOMEN'S SUBVERSIVE INDIVIDUALISM IN BARCELONA DURING THE 1930s
MICHAEL SEIDMAN
International Review Of Social History XXXVII (1992)
Towards a History of Workers' Resistance to Work - Michael Seidman
"The implications of workers' resistance to work are far-reaching. The study of their reluctance to work shows that the claim by unions and political parties of the left to represent the working class is somewhat questionable. French and Spanish workers continued their traditional ways of resistance to labour in spite of calls by communists, socialists, anarchists or syndicalists for greater production.
The persistence of workers' resistance created tensions between members of the working class and the organizations which claimed to represent them. In both revolutionary and reformist situations, persuasion and propaganda which aimed to convince the workers to work harder was inadequate and had to be supplemented by force."
Quiet Fronts in the Spanish Civil War - Michael Seidman
QUIET FRONTS IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR.
Author/s: Michael Seidman
Issue: Summer, 1999
Workers Against Work: Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts - Michael Seidman
Workers Against Work
Labor in Paris and Barcelona During the Popular Fronts
Michael Seidman
Individualisms in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War - Michael Seidman
Individualisms in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War
Michael Seidman
PDF Format (2.05MB)
Agrarian Collectives during the Spanish Civil War - Michael Seidman
Agrarian Collectives during the Spanish Revolution and Civil War
Michael Seidman
PDF Format (108KB)
Workers Against Work - Review
Undercurrent's review of Michael Seidman's 'Workers against work: labor in Paris and Barcelona during the Popular Fronts'.
This 400 page book is also available in a much shortened pamphlet version, which is probably easier to get hold of, and despite sounding dull as shit it's actually really interesting. It deals with the situations in France and Spain during their Popular Front governments of the 1930's, focusing on developments in Paris and Barcelona, drawing out the differences and similarities between the two.
