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Acknowledgements -- Introduction : republic against market -- Globalisation and French identity -- Political leaders : a new civilising mission? -- French intellectuals : a war of worlds -- A l'attac : a new political identity for the left -- Agriculture and identity : the confederation paysanne -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

L'affaire France Télécom a eu un retentissement considérable sur la scène internationale et surtout au Royaume-Uni, où les suicides liés au travail ne sont encore ni reconnus, ni comptabilisés, ni régulés. Cet article étudie la portée légale et morale du procès de France Télécom comme modèle potentiel pour des réformes progressistes de régulation sur les lieux de travail au Royaume-Uni. L'article décrit une campagne menée par des chercheurs et des syndicalistes pour exhorter le Health and Safety Executive (H se ) de faire son travail de régulation autour des suicides au travail. Le but de cette campagne était de faire peser une pression internationale sur le Hse , en montrant que sa position mettait les travailleurs britanniques en danger, et de souligner son attitude anormale, voire négligente, comparée à celle d'autres pays. L'article présente le contexte législatif britannique autour de la santé mentale et du suicide au travail et montre l'étendue de la recherche actuelle sur les suicides liés au travail au Royaume-Uni, par opposition au contexte français. Face à la position du Hse qui traite le suicide comme un problème individuel de santé mentale sans aucun lien avec le travail, l'affaire France Télécom a servi de modèle positif de reconnaissance juridique et de justice sociale.

This article examines recent documentary films that have sought to narrate, record and criticise the effects on the French workplace of a shift to a new model of finance capitalism driven by 'pure' money. The films give representation to subjective experiences in the workplace showing how abstract economics is played out at the most intimate, personal and material level. The films seem to challenge dominant representations of finance capitalism as an order that has emancipated workers from the physical and disciplinary constraints of industrialism. The workers in these films describe the transition to a new economic order in terms of an intensification of corporeal pain. We see an economic order that pits an infinite accumulation of virtual money against the finite productive capacities of the human body.

French intellectuals have been at the forefront of a national and international movement of opposition to neo-liberal globalisation. Drawing on Samuel Huntington's controversial work, The Clash of Civilisations, I will argue that French intellectuals shared a civilisational perspective of globalisation, seeing it not as a piecemeal market process or economic reform, but as an all-encompassing external threat. This civilisational perspective had contradictory effects on the nature of their opposition. On the one hand, intellectuals were able to produce a radical critique that challenged neo-liberalism and reinscribed the market within a specific political and ideological context. On the other hand, they tended to perpetuate an essentialist view of globalisation that saw this not as an economic process but as an expression of a pre-determined Anglo-Saxon type.

Recent literature on social movements has called for a renewal of theory so that it engages more directly with the social and historical dynamics in which movements emerge and crystallize. Too often, some critics argue, movements are treated as static or reified phenomena that are disconnected from their links to space and time. I examine new social movement theory from an historical perspective that emphasizes its connections with concrete social dynamics at a given point in time. Unlike alternative approaches, new social movement (NSM) theory and in particular the work of Alain Touraine, was forged out of a specific episode of social conflict—the May 1968 revolt in France—and was deeply informed by the experience of this conflict. This theory provides a dynamic and relational model in which social and historical processes are treated as major determinants of collective action within society. In fact, what explains the success of NSM theory and its enduring influence over time, is that it reaches beyond an analysis of social movements to provide an overarching theory of society at a given historical juncture. The article suggests that NSM theory provides a fruitful perspective for scholars searching for an approach that take history into account.

Recent literature on social movements has called for a renewal of theory so that it engages more directly with the social and historical dynamics in which movements emerge and crystallize. Too often, some critics argue, movements are treated as static or reified phenomena that are disconnected from their links to space and time. I examine new social movement theory from an historical perspective that emphasizes its connections with concrete social dynamics at a given point in time. Unlike alternative approaches, new social movement (NSM) theory and in particular the work of Alain Touraine, was forged out of a specific episode of social conflict-the May 1968 revolt in France-and was deeply informed by the experience of this conflict. This theory provides a dynamic and relational model in which social and historical processes are treated as major determinants of collective action within society. In fact, what explains the success of NSM theory and its enduring influence over time, is that it reaches beyond an analysis of social movements to provide an overarching theory of society at a given historical juncture. The article suggests that NSM theory provides a fruitful perspective for scholars searching for an approach that take history into account. Adapted from the source document.