Jean Maitron was a French historian specialist of the labour movement.
10 Facts About Jean Maitron
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The Jean Maitron has now extended itself with international versions, treating Austria, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, China, Morocco, United States from 1848 to 1922, a transnational one about the Komintern and the most recently published about Algeria, almost all published at the Editions de l'Atelier.
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Jean Maitron founded and directed two reviews, L'Actualite de l'Histoire and then Le Mouvement social, which were directed after his death by Madeleine Reberioux then Patrick Fridenson.
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Jean Maitron then became a member of the Trotskyist Ligue communiste which was supporting an anti-fascist line, but he left it when Leon Trotsky advocated fusion with the French Section of the Workers' International.
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Jean Maitron wrote to Marcel Cachin and was allowed to return to the PCF, where he remained a member until the World War II.
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Jean Maitron left the PSU in January 1968, when it considered merging with the Federation de la gauche democrate et socialiste.
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Jean Maitron wrote in 1950 a study on the anarchism movement in France and wrote a complementary study of Paul Delessale, an anarcho-syndicalist.
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Jean Maitron retired in 1976 and was nominated as chevalier de la Legion d'honneur in 1982 and a chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1985.
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Jean Maitron was cremated at the Pere Lachaise cemetery and his ashes dispersed.
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Jean Maitron's work is carried on by a team directed by Claude Pennetier, a researcher at the CNRS, a unit of the Centre d'histoire sociale du XXe.