# Opening the Gates

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- Book: [Opening the Gates](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-reid/opening-the-gates) ([Opening the Gates.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-reid/opening-the-gates.md))
- Authors: [Donald Reid](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-reid)
- Publisher: verso
- ISBN: 978-17-8663-540-2
- Pages: 512
- Published: 2018-06-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labor struggles after May 1968 In 1973, faced with massive layoffs, workers at the legendary Lip watch firm in Besançon, France, occupied...