DAVID M. GORDON is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His first book was Merchants and Capitalists: Industrialization and Provincial Politics in Mid-Nineteenth Century France (1985).

• Introduction Industrial Growth and Socialist Success at Roubaix Eugene Motte and the Bourgeois Political Resurgence Georges Claudinon and the Industrial Revival at Le Chambon-Feugerolles Industrial Crisis and Progressiste Success at Rive-de-Gier Francois de Wendel and Progressiste Politics in Industrial Lorraine Conclusion Appendix Index

DAVID M. GORDON is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His first book was Merchants and Capitalists: Industrialization and Provincial Politics in Mid-Nineteenth Century France (1985).

• Introduction Industrial Growth and Socialist Success at Roubaix Eugene Motte and the Bourgeois Political Resurgence Georges Claudinon and the Industrial Revival at Le Chambon-Feugerolles Industrial Crisis and Progressiste Success at Rive-de-Gier Francois de Wendel and Progressiste Politics in Industrial Lorraine Conclusion Appendix Index

DAVID M. GORDON is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His first book was Merchants and Capitalists: Industrialization and Provincial Politics in Mid-Nineteenth Century France (1985).

• Introduction Industrial Growth and Socialist Success at Roubaix Eugene Motte and the Bourgeois Political Resurgence Georges Claudinon and the Industrial Revival at Le Chambon-Feugerolles Industrial Crisis and Progressiste Success at Rive-de-Gier Francois de Wendel and Progressiste Politics in Industrial Lorraine Conclusion Appendix Index