Based on his extensive study of French coal miners in the early 20th century, Cohn (sociology, Texas A&M U.) throws light on the weaknesses of the US labor movement, and proposes strategies for workers in a wide variety of tactical situations. He analyzes such implications of strikes as the financial impact, the consequences of winning and losing,
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`Cohn construct[s] the most extensive and sophisticated analysis of strikes' outcomes that anyone has ever done... With exemplary clarity, Cohn lays out his ideas, sources, methods, findings, substantive conclusions, and strategic inferences. Informed readers are likely to wonder how conclusions drawn from the experience of French miners between 1890 to 1935 apply to other times and places... Cohn's powerful analyses give us new reasons for wanting to know. '
from the foreword by Charles Tilly, New School for Social Research, New York
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