TY - BOOK ID - 2408170 TI - Peasants and protest PY - 1991 SN - 0520068092 0520909720 0585081506 9780520909724 9780520068094 9780585081502 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Peasants KW - Socialism KW - Vineyard laborers KW - Labor unions KW - Political activity KW - History. KW - History KW - Paysannerie KW - Socialisme KW - Syndicats KW - Vignerons KW - Histoire KW - Travailleurs agricoles KW - Activité politique KW - Agricultural Economics KW - Business & Economics KW - Agricultural workers KW - Farm labor KW - Farm laborers KW - Farm workers KW - Farmhands KW - Farmworkers KW - Employees KW - Grape pickers KW - Peasantry KW - Rural population KW - Marks (Medieval land tenure) KW - Villeinage KW - Marxism KW - Social democracy KW - Socialist movements KW - Collectivism KW - Anarchism KW - Communism KW - Critical theory KW - Aude (Department) KW - Pickers, Grape KW - 19th century. KW - 20th century france. KW - agricultural workers. KW - aude region. KW - capitalism. KW - class formation. KW - economic transformation. KW - labor militancy. KW - labor protests. KW - labor radicalism. KW - labor relations. KW - labor strikes. KW - labor unions. KW - left wing politics. KW - massive demonstrations. KW - middle class. KW - peasant uprisings. KW - peasants. KW - political history. KW - rural proletariat. KW - rural society. KW - sleepy vineyard towns. KW - social change. KW - social history. KW - social issues. KW - social structure. KW - socialist party. KW - southern france. KW - vinegrowers. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2408170 AB - In the first decade of the twentieth century, the sleepy vineyard towns of the Aude department of southern France exploded with strikes and protests. Agricultural workers joined labor unions, the Socialist party established a base among peasant vinegrowers, and the largest peasant uprising of twentieth-century France, the great vinegrowers' revolt of 1907, shook the entire south with massive demonstrations. In this study, Laura Levine Frader explains how left-wing politics and labor radicalism in the Aude emerged from the economic and social transformation of rural society between 1850 and 1914. She describes the formation of an agricultural wage-earning class, and discusses how socialism and a revolutionary syndicalist labor movement together forged working-class identity. Frader's focus on the making of the rural proletariat takes the study of class formation out of the towns and cities and into the countryside. Frader emphasizes the complexity of social structure and political life in the Aude, describing the interaction of productive relations, the gender division of labor, community solidarities, and class alliances. Her analysis raises questions about the applicability of an urban, industrial model of class formation to rural society. This study will be of interest to French social historians, agricultural historians, and those interested in the relationship between capitalism, class formation, and labor militancy. ER -