When Strikes Make Sense-And Why Lessons from Third Republic French Coal Miners

'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 YorkCohn, S. is the author of 'When Strikes Make Sense-And Why Lessons from Third Republic French Coal Miners', published 1993 under ISBN 9780306444456 and ISBN 0306444453.