...Phillip D. McCoury The French Labor Movement . By Lorwin Val R. . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1954 . Pp. xix , 346 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 423 sume before her presence can be known? What were they in that frontier world...

... that, with Barnhart s study, have been reached and fairly well exhausted. HARRY R. STEVENS The French Labor Movement. By Val R. Lorwin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Pp. xix, 346. $6.00. Professor Lorwin has incorporated his detailed and intimate knowledge of the French labor movement into an excellent...

... is recited in detail. Lorwin analyzes the relative strength and the philosophies of the three important federations, CGT (communist), FO (noncommunist), CFTC (Christian), and concludes gloomily that the latter two have little chance of driving the first out of its position of power and, indeed, that because...

... at the height of their prestige and influence. Similarly, the Problems of Modern France 137 labor movement emerged from liberation powerful and united only to see its strength rapidly dissipated. The reason in that case, Val Lorwin points out in an excellent sketch, has been the struggle for the political...