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W. Rand Smith
The Left's Dirty Job:  The Politics of Industrial Restructing in France and Spain
University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998

A comparison of how Socialist governments in France and Spain in the 1980s and early 1990s dealt with problems arising from the need to restructure basic industries (steel,  automobiles) that required massive layoffs of Socialist-voting workers.
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W. Rand Smith
Crisis in the French Labor Movement:  A Grassroots Perspective
Macmillan (UK) and St. Martin's (US), 1987

Analysis of dynamics of local unionism in France, based on extensive fieldwork and 150 author interviews in four Grenoble factories.