| Titre | LE SYNDICALISME : UN HORIZON SANS GRANDEUR ? | |
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| Auteur | Joël Michel | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 60, octobre-décembre 1998 Les engagements du 20e siècle | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | LES ENGAGEMENTS DU 20e SIÈCLE |
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| Page | 27-34 | |
| Résumé anglais | Trade Unionism, a Limited Horizon ?, Joël Michel. There is a gap that can't easily be reduced between intellectual engagement and trade union militantism. Commitment is an individual act taken in the name of a uniserval morality whereas trade union militantism is a collective act whose aim is to defend oneself and those like oneself. The former seeks the greatest immediate visibility whereas the latter's action exists in the long term and accepts the humility of the daily management of social relations. That the notion of commitment spread to social militantism was thanks to the political commitment model put into practice by the French Communist Party and the CGT after W.W.II. The accounts of militants' lives clarify the collective motivations of social commitment and highlight its spe- cificity. Today, however, the decline of the major unions and the wearing out of the traditional forms of worker militantism link the latter with the individual engagement of intellectuals. | |
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