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Immigration in France: the Untold Story. G. Noiriel. Over the last century immigration has played a decisive role in the renewal of the French population. For reasons having to do with political history as well as with the history of the social sciences, historians have not been interested in this subject ofstudy until quite recently. One of the essential causes of mass immigration was French industry's inability to supply itself with the necessary labor power from the national labor market. The magnitude of its recourse to foreign workers led, in several branches of production, to a veritable substitution of one worker group for another. This article analyses the economic and political effects—very important for the social history of Fr...
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