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Robert Linhart (Author)
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Text: English, French (translation)

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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr (October 1981)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 087023322X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0870233227
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,024,557 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Still one of the best books I've read, May 12, 2004
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Dave Death (McLaren Vale, SA, Australia) - See all my reviews
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Some time ago there was an online bookstore called labor's online bookstore. That page now links to Amazon. In 1998 I posted the following review on that website: "I recently read this and it is one of the best books I have ever read, lucid, accessible, engaging, and an excellent account of one young Marxist putting theory into practice in the Citroen factory at Choissy in 1968." I stand by that brief endorsement today. I consider it essential reading, and recommend it to my students interested in factory discipline, unions, etc. Linhart was a young Marxist student (actually, a former student of Louis Althusser) who, after 1968, went into the Citroen factory. It is especially good on labour-discipline and racism.
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4.0 out of 5 stars "l'etabli", May 11, 2000
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"DE CADENAS Y DE HOMBRES"

ROBERT LINHART

El principal objetivo que planea de "De cadenas y de hombres" es la cuestión de la influencia sindical sobre la evolución de las formas de trabajo. Mas que la historia aislada de una huelga infructuosa, narra la situación en la que se encontraban las organizaciones sindicales y los obreros de la Francia, y en general del mundo entero, durante los 60's. En la Francia de esa época, no existía una tradición en la materia de la organización del trabajo porque los sindicatos nunca se comprometieron en ese terreno. Las transformaciones que se dieron desde entonces hasta la fecha, las cuales afectaron los intereses obrero - empresa, aunque principalmente los intereses de este último, la evolución y transformación de las negociaciones sindicato - empresa y de sus modalidades, la necesidad de nuevas condiciones sociales, sobre todo referente al empleo, contribuyeron a un recentramiento en torno a todas estas cuestiones y a un mayor interés por parte de los obreros y de los sindicatos.

No obstante, al inicio de estos movimientos, ninguna ideología iba en este sentido. La organización del trabajo no se modernizaba en sus principios, no planteaba nuevas soluciones, sino que todo parecía estático y aislado (como lo relata el libro, había mas movimientos en otras empresas y países, pero estos no estaban en comunicación, o la información no llegaba de un lugar a otro). Además los sindicatos, semidesmembrados por métodos de intimidación y agresión (como lo que ocurre con el movimiento de Linhart en la Citroën), no parecían en condiciones de comprender la necesidad de una reorganización del trabajo.

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