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Vertrauen und Politik im Alltag Die Arbeiterbewegung in Leipzig und Lyon im Moment der Krise 1929-1933/38

The book explores the working-class movement’s struggle against the rise of the radical right at the end of the Weimar Republic and the Third French Republic. Based on local case studies, it analyzes the dynamics of political mobilization at the rank-and-file level. It asks why the strong German working-class movement failed to offer effective resistance to the Nazis, whereas a weak French working-class movement succeeded in mobilizing hundreds of thousands of workers during the Popular Front. It analyzes, first, the role of trust and distrust in the two movements, and second the ambivalent consequences of the politicization of working-class life.