A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910.(Reviews)(Book Review)

Journal of Social History | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910. By Leslie A. Schuster (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002. x plus 233 pp. $64.95).

Leslie Schuster's study of the ship-building port of Saint-Nazaire, 1880-1910, is something of a throw-back to a spate of labor-history books published on individual cities and towns during the 1970s and 1980s, challenging the applicability of the conclusions of some of them to her case study. Saint-Nazaire is interesting because "state intervention over a thirty-year ...

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