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Dissertation Information for Lori Robin Weintrob

NAME:
- Lori Robin Weintrob

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1995)

ADVISORS:
- Eugen Weber

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: From fraternity to solidarity: Mutual aid, popular sociability, and social reform in France, 1880-1914

Abstract: In studying the evolution of labor organization and social protection in France, this dissertation analyzes the culture and politics of mutual aid societies between 1880 and 1914 with particular attention to the commercial and industrial center of Lyon. Developed from centuries-old popular traditions of association, mutual aid societies (like friendly societies in England and the U.S.) offered members economic support in case of sickness, accident, and old age, as well as social solidarity. By the late nineteenth century, two million French workers, artisans, and employees joined local mutualist groups--four times the number who enrolled in unions. This choice--at present little understood--suggests that radical ideology was less effective among French wage-earners than older corporate rituals and traditional forms of social protection. Situated at the frontier of the working classes, mutual aid groups fostered popular sociability, an active and organized citizenry, and a moderate trade-unionism in twentieth century France.

Together, the state and private voluntary associations established a network of social protection which strengthened interclass alliances and progressive republican forces within the French state. Moderate and Radical Republican social reformers subsidized mutual aid societies in order to improve the lot of citizens and to wean workers and employees away from Catholic circles and nascent socialist unions. Gender was an important component of official discourse which attempted to position the family and health care, alongside work issues, at the center of collective action. Republican social thinkers such as economist Charles Gide, sociologist Emile Durkheim, and political philosopher Leon Bourgeois incorporated the intellectual principles of mutual aid and social unity into a theory of solidarity, which defined the official program of the Radical party. A generation of leaders propagated social solidarity to consolidate the nation.

Popular organizations and their demands for security inspired social legislation during the Third Republic to a degree which has not been understood. By the First World War, the Radicals, building on the strength of traditional voluntary associations, had built a national infrastructure of social services and paved a path towards the welfare state.

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