TY  - BOOK
AU  - Denis,Jean-Michel
TI  - The case of SUD-Rail : the limits of 'radical political unionism'
AV  - HD8391 EUR 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - London
PB  - Sage
KW  - SUD-Rail
KW  - Trade unions
KW  - Radical political unionism
N2  - This comment on the article by Connolly and Darlington suggests that the experience of SUD-Rail is more ambiguous than these authors assume. Though the union is certainly committed to militant industrial action and to broader social struggles, it is misleading to describe its orientation as ‘political’. Its militancy also has two consequences which may prove self-defeating. First, it is unable to appeal to the full range of employees in the French railways. Second, the demands imposed on its activists can prove exhausting and result in ‘burn-out’
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0959680112452807
ER  -