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Podcast: Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast
Episode: Ludivine Broch, âOrdinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World Warâ (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Description: This spring and summer, the workers of the SociĂ©tĂ© nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) staged a series of rolling strikes, slowing and shutting down the countryâs major lines of travel and transport. It wasnât the first time that Franceâs cheminots (railway workers) have taken a stand, and it certainly wonât be the last. Another major strike is scheduled for early October of this year.In Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2016), Ludivine Broch examines the history of railway worker resistance and...