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Jacques Jenny : A study of social maturation. The author suggests a conceptual framework for the progress of those aspects of research in the humanistic sciences which deal with the various stages in the maturation process of the individual, particularly between the pre-pubescent age and maturity. He stresses the psychosociological and sociological aspects of their development and gives a critical sketch of the concept of social maturation, with a summary of his comparative research.

Dominique Lahalle : Workers, militants, and trade-unions problems. A comparison between the attitudes of three groups of trade-union militants (C.G.T., C.F.T.C., C.G.T.-F.O.) and that of others workers, for the most part not belonging to a union, was made during a survey on automation and productivity in the textile industry at Lille and Roubaix-Tourcoing. This comparative study shows how far two groups are apart and demonstrates that this distance and the resulting difficulties spring from the situation created by the worker's acquisition of new privileges.

Charlotte Delbo : Rebuilding America. American cities are deteriorating so rapidly that a large-scale reconstruction program has had to be undertaken. Though these cities are only about two hundred years old, they are going to ruins and need to be saved, but how ?