An overview of French unions through a number of historical documents and profiles of the five major confederations. The FEN teachers' union and the farmers' union, FNSEA, are also presented. There is an additional collection on the union crisis and on the role of women in the unions.
See Theme-based collectionThis collection is organised by decade, then by production sector or company. There are few documents concerning the 1950s, more on the 1960s and 70s and a vast number of documents relating to the period from 1980 to 2010.
See Theme-based collectionA collection on the changes in working hours and paid holidays in France. Before and during the early years of the Fifth Republic, the subject was given very little air-time, but the 35-hour working week, introduced in 1998, and days off work were given substantial TV coverage.
See Theme-based collectionThis collection covers an emblematic social conflict in the early 1970s in an industrial sector that had scarcely been affected by job cuts until then.The words "worker management" were used frequently during the crisis, but the watchmakers, who continued to sell their clocks and watches, were in fact unable to set up a production cooperative.
See Theme-based collectionThis collection devoted to unemployment in France focuses mainly on the political, economic and legal aspects of the problem. Social issues are covered in another collection. Numerous news items and other documents trace the phenomenon, which affects a large part of the population, from the 1973 oil shock to the present day.
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