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John H. Goldthorpe : Images of class among affluent manual workers. It has been suggested that relatively affluent manual workers, characterised by an instrumental orientation to work and a privatised social life, may have images of the class structure significantly different from either the 'power' models typical of more traditional manual workers or the 'prestige' models typical of white-collar employees : specifically, that they will tend rather to interpret class structure in 'money' terms. Result from an investigation of the class images of a sample of 229 British workers, living in a prosperous and expanding industrial town, serve largely to confirm this hypothesis. Among workers studied, a relatively new mode of social consciousness appeared to prevail, combining in a complex manner both collectivist and individualist elements.

Sabine Erbès-Seguin: Relationship between workers and militants in a firm on strike : the case of May- June 1968. Two main types of union action determine the form of mobilization of workers by militants. When union action is subordinated to the action of political parties, mobilization is limited, the demands are traditional and free of any political content, the workers follow but participe very little. When the militants are not able to keep their action non-political, conflicts grow between militants and workers, but the degree of participation of the latter is high. When there is a great deal of autonomy in union action as related to party action, the demands tend to have a political content, and the action is worked out by all workers, militants or not.

Maryse Tripier : The demands made to the Atomic Energy Commissioner's Office by the Conseils d'unité (unified boards) in May-June 1968. The demands of the Conseils d'unité which held an important place during the strikes in may-june 1968 at the atomic energy commission, expressed the double necessity for rationalization and democracy in the commission. In asking about the origin of such demands, one takes into account, successively, the situation at the commission (latent crisis), the evolution of research work and its psychological consequences, and the nature of the relationships between scientific workers and political power. The main hypothesis of the article is that the action of the research personnel was determined by the perception of the decision making process both in the commission and in society.

François Marquart, Christian de Montlibert : Division of work and competition in architecture. French architects are presently experiencing a change in their profession : on the one hand, big agencies are created which employ a large staff and use new organizational procedures and a new division of labour; on the other hand, new actors intervene on the construction market, in competition with the architect : promoters, research bureaus, large construction companies, etc... Thus it is not surprising to see architects, whose trade is based on the rules of the liberal professions and whose system of values emphasizes the impor- tance of artistic creation, react to these changes. These reactions are analysed by the authors in describing different types of demands made. Indeed, as they are attached to a charismatic image of their profession, the architects cannot accept the technical and economic rational of the construction market.

Georges Pica, Philippe Robert : Note on a research which predicts the evolution of criminology. (Hypothesis, method and critical bibliography). Establishing statistical estimates of criminality.