French revolutionary syndicalism and the public sphere

Acknowledgements Introduction: Prologue 1. The Belle Epoque and revolutionary syndicalism Part I. Reconfiguring the Language of Labour: The Advantages and Limitations of a Habermasian Historical Sociology: 2. Syndicalism, the New Orthodoxy and the postmodern turn 3. Public discourse and civil society: Habermas, Bourdieu and the new social movements Part II. Visions of Modernity in the Liberal and Proletarian Public Spheres: Positivism, Republicanism and Social Science: 4. The liberal and proletarian public spheres in nineteenth-century France 5. The fin-de-siecle public sphere, the academic field and the social sciences Part III. Exploring Revolutionary Syndicalism: 6. Pelloutier, Sorel and revolutionary syndicalism 7. Reformulating revolutionary syndicalism 8. Toward a new public sphere: Taylorism, consumerism and the postwar CGT Conclusion: 9. The legacy of syndicalism Notes Index.