Le syndicalisme : un horizon sans grandeur ? - article ; n°1 ; vol.60, pg 27-34

Joël Michel

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Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1998 - Volume 60 - Numéro 1 - Pages 27-34
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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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Publié par: VINGTIEME_SIECLE-_REVUE_D-HISTOIRE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 1998
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Joël Michel

Le syndicalisme : un horizon sans grandeur ?

In: Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire. N°60, octobre-décembre 1998. pp. 27-34.

Abstract

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.

Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Michel Joël. Le syndicalisme : un horizon sans grandeur ?. In: Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire. N°60, octobre-décembre

1998. pp. 27-34.

doi : 10.3406/xxs.1998.2755

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/xxs_0294-1759_1998_num_60_1_2755